Splanchnic and Hepatic Metabolism of Som
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Susan Webb; David Kravetz; Jaume Bosch; John A. H. Wass; Joan Evans; Ramon Gomis
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Experimental data suggest that somatostatin is metabolized by both liver and kidneys. Results in humans are conflicting. By studying a group of cirrhotic patients with surgically induced end-to-side portacaval shunts, basally and during a somatostatin infusion, we have been able to analyze separatel