Steroids or pentoxifylline for alcoholic hepatitis (STOPAH): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Alcoholic hepatitis is the most florid presentation of alcohol-related liver disease. In its severe form, defined by a Maddrey’s discriminant function (DF) ≥32, the 28-day mortality rate is approximately 35%. A number of potential treatments have been subjected to clinical trials, of whi...

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Autores principales: Forrest, Ewan, Mellor, Jane, Stanton, Louise, Bowers, Megan, Ryder, Priscilla, Austin, Andrew, Day, Christopher, Gleeson, Dermot, O’Grady, John, Masson, Steven, McCune, Anne, Patch, David, Richardson, Paul, Roderick, Paul, Ryder, Stephen, Wright, Mark, Thursz, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3766225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23958271
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-262

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