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Blood ammonia levels in liver cirrhosis: a clue for the presence of portosystemic collateral veins

BACKGROUND: Portal hypertension leads to the formation of portosystemic collateral veins in liver cirrhosis. The resulting shunting is responsible for the development of portosystemic encephalopathy. Although ammonia plays a certain role in determining portosystemic encephalopathy, the venous ammoni...

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Autores principales: Tarantino, Giovanni, Citro, Vincenzo, Esposito, Pasquale, Giaquinto, Sabrina, de Leone, Annalisa, Milan, Graziella, Tripodi, Francesca Saveria, Cirillo, Michele, Lobello, Roberto
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19292923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-9-21