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Effect of Meal Ingestion on Liver Stiffness in Patients with Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Liver stiffness is increasingly used in the non-invasive evaluation of chronic liver diseases. Liver stiffness correlates with hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) in patients with cirrhosis and holds prognostic value in this population. Hence, accuracy in its measurement is...

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Autores principales: Berzigotti, Annalisa, De Gottardi, Andrea, Vukotic, Ranka, Siramolpiwat, Sith, Abraldes, Juan G., García-Pagan, Juan Carlos, Bosch, Jaime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23520531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058742