Early prediction of postoperative liver dysfunction and clinical outcome using antithrombin III-activity.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Antithrombin III (ATIII) has been reported to be associated with liver pathologies and was shown to predict outcome in patients undergoing liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma. We now aimed to assess whether perioperative ATIII-activity could predict postoperative outcome...

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Main Authors: David Pereyra, Florian Offensperger, Florian Klinglmueller, Stefanie Haegele, Lukas Oehlberger, Thomas Gruenberger, Christine Brostjan, Patrick Starlinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5391027?pdf=render