Oral glutamine challenge improves the performance of psychometric tests for the diagnosis of minimal hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  PMID 24078984
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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