Treatment of alcoholic hepatitis: is this a "dead-end"?
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Treatment of alcoholic hepatitis: is this a “dead-end”?
Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a clinical syndrome characterized by jaundice and liver failure that develops in subjects with chronic and active alcohol abuse [1]. The shortterm mortality in patients with severe disease, as defined by the Maddrey’s discriminant function, exceeds 30% [2]. Up to now, only two drugs, prednisolone and pentoxifylline, have shown some efficacy for the treatment of this ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Gastroenterology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1792-7463
DOI: 10.20524/aog.2016.0023