Palliative long-term abdominal drains versus repeated drainage in individuals with untreatable ascites due to advanced cirrhosis: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: UK deaths due to chronic liver diseases such as cirrhosis have quadrupled over the last 40 years, making this condition now the third most common cause of premature death. Most patients with advanced cirrhosis (end-stage liver disease [ESLD]) develop ascites. This is often managed with d...

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Autores principales: Macken, Lucia, Mason, Louise, Evans, Catherine, Gage, Heather, Jordan, Jake, Austin, Mark, Parnell, Nick, Cooper, Max, Steer, Shani, Boles, Justine, Bremner, Stephen, Lambert, Debbie, Crook, David, Earl, Gemma, Timeyin, Jean, Verma, Sumita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30053891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2779-0

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