Comparative study of the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation and oral administration of branched-chain amino acid on preventing sarcopenia in patients after living-donor liver transplantation: study protocol for an open-label randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Liver cirrhosis is the irreversible fibrosis of the liver and causes refractory ascites and hepatic encephalopathy, which might not respond to treatment. Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an effective treatment for patients with cirrhosis. However, post-LDLT patients are prone...

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Autores principales: Haraguchi, Masafumi, Ichinose, Kunihiro, Miyaaki, Hisamitsu, Hanada, Masatoshi, Fukushima, Masanori, Sasaki, Ryu, Miuma, Satoshi, Hara, Takanobu, Kugiyama, Tota, Soyama, Akihiko, Hidaka, Masaaki, Tsuji, Ayumi, Yano, Rintaro, Sekino, Motohiro, Takahata, Hideaki, Eguchi, Susumu, Nakao, Kazuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7881684/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33579345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05086-y

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