Plasma endothelin levels in patients with cirrhosis
โ Scribed by Richard J. Aspinall
- Book ID
- 118567397
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 81 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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Endothelin is a newly discovered potent vasoconstrictor peptide. To explain the clinical significance of endothelin in patients with chronic liver diseases, we measured the plasma concentration of endothelin in patients with chronic hepatitis (n = 15), cirrhosis with ascites (n = 8) and cirrhosis wi
The aims of this study were to examine the plasma nitrate/nitrite (NOx; two end products of nitric oxide metabolism) and endothelin-1 (ET-1) concentrations in patients with liver cirrhosis, and to investigate whether there is a relationship between these two vasoactive parameters and the course of d