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Clinical and microbiological features of infection in alcoholic hepatitis: an international cohort study

Richard Parker; Gene Y. Im; Fiona Jones; Onán Pérez Hernández; Jonathan Nahas; Aditi Kumar; Daniel Wheatley; Ashish Sinha · 2017 · Journal of Gastroenterology

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have described the clinical impact of infection in alcoholic hepatitis (AH) but none have comprehensively explored the aetiopathogenesis of infection in this setting. We examined the causes, consequences and treatment of infection in a cohort of patients with AH. METHODS: We undertook a retrospective cohort study of patients with AH admitted between 2009 and 2014 to seven centres in Europe and the USA. Clinical and microbiological data were extracted from medical records. Survival was analysed with Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox proportional hazards analysis to cont

Abstract by Richard Parker; Gene Y. Im; Fiona Jones; Onán Pérez Hernández; Jonathan Nahas; Aditi Kumar; Daniel Wheatley; Ashish Sinha, Journal of Gastroenterology (2017) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1007/s00535-017-1336-z