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Elevated Fasting Plasma Glucose before Liver Transplantation is Associated with Lower Post-Transplant Survival

BACKGROUND: The risk of liver cirrhosis is higher among individuals with diabetes mellitus, and a cirrhotic patient with diabetes may have a poorer prognosis after liver transplantation compared to a patient without diabetes. Thus, we evaluated whether fasting plasma glucose prior to receiving a liv...

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Autores principales: Katsura, Emi, Ichikawa, Tatsuki, Taura, Naota, Miyaaki, Hisamitsu, Miuma, Satoshi, Shibata, Hidetaka, Honda, Takuya, Hidaka, Masaaki, Soyama, Akihiko, Takeshima, Fuminao, Eguchi, Susumu, Nakao, Kazuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27909287
http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.897925