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Management of Cirrhotic Ascites under the Add-on Administration of Tolvaptan

Tolvaptan is a recently available diuretic that blocks arginine vasopressin receptor 2 in the renal collecting duct. Its diuretic mechanism involves selective water reabsorption by affecting the water reabsorption receptor aquaporin 2. Given that liver cirrhosis patients exhibit hyponatremia due to...

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Autores principales: Adachi, Takuya, Takeuchi, Yasuto, Takaki, Akinobu, Oyama, Atsushi, Wada, Nozomu, Onishi, Hideki, Shiraha, Hidenori, Okada, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8197450/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070416
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22115582