Acute phase inflammatory markers and clinical parameters in chronic liver disease egyptian patients
TA Salman, KM Attallah, HE Zaghla, MA Mostafa, EM Ghoneim, MA Obada · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2013 · Heft 01
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Introduction: Significant proportion of cirrhotic patients even without infection show elevated levels of several acute phase proteins (APPs). Bacterial infection especially spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is common cause for hospitalization of patients with liver cirrhosis. A hypothetic relationship between APPs and infection in liver cirrhosis needs further validation. AIMS/Methods: To evaluate inflammatory response markers (APPs) in chronic liver diseases with emphasis on their correlation with bacterial infection as SBP. This study was conducted on 100 subjects at National Liver Institute, Menoufia U…