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Palliative Long-term Abdominal Drains vs. Large Volume Paracentesis for refractory ascites secondary to cirrhosis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

2025-05-06

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold> Ascites remains the most common complication of cirrhosis and a frequent reason for hospitalisation in advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD). Ascites is associated with significant symptom burden, caregiver workload and poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Once refractory to treatment, median survival is poor. Many with refractory ascites (RA) will neithe...

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Literature Corpus work: 83ca7a4a-9921-5a09-8181-116ccafd6a51
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5836531/v1

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