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Significance of the (13)C-caffeine breath test for patients with cirrhosis

BACKGROUND: The 13C-caffeine breath test (CBT) is a non-invasive, quantitative test of liver function which has been shown to correlate inversely to the Child-Pugh score. The aim of the study was to determine the utility of CBT in the assessment of cirrhosis and its correlation to the model for end-...

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Autores principales: Konstantinou, Dimitrios, Margariti, Ekaterini, Hadziyannis, Emilia, Pectasides, Dimitrios, Papatheodoridis, George V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714782