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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI102948

HEPATIC CIRRHOSIS: EFFECTS OF SODIUM CHLORIDE ADMINISTRATION AND RESTRICTION AND OF ABDOMINAL PARACENTESIS ON ELECTROLYTE AND WATER BALANCE

George J. Gabuzda Jr., Henry S. Traeger, and Charles S. Davidson

Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Welch Fellow in Internal Medicine of the National Research Council. This investigation was accomplished in part during the tenure of a United States Public Health Service Postdoctorate Fellowship.

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This investigation was sponsored by the Commission on Liver Disease, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and was supported in part by a grant from the Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington, D.C., and in part by grants from Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company, Pearl River, New York, and from Merck and Company, Rahway, New Jersey, to Harvard University.

2

A preliminary report of this investigation was included in the Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, May 1, 1950 (J. Clin. Invest., 1950, 29, 814).

Find articles by Gabuzda, G. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

3

Welch Fellow in Internal Medicine of the National Research Council. This investigation was accomplished in part during the tenure of a United States Public Health Service Postdoctorate Fellowship.

1

This investigation was sponsored by the Commission on Liver Disease, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and was supported in part by a grant from the Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington, D.C., and in part by grants from Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company, Pearl River, New York, and from Merck and Company, Rahway, New Jersey, to Harvard University.

2

A preliminary report of this investigation was included in the Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, May 1, 1950 (J. Clin. Invest., 1950, 29, 814).

Find articles by Traeger, H. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

3

Welch Fellow in Internal Medicine of the National Research Council. This investigation was accomplished in part during the tenure of a United States Public Health Service Postdoctorate Fellowship.

1

This investigation was sponsored by the Commission on Liver Disease, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and was supported in part by a grant from the Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington, D.C., and in part by grants from Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company, Pearl River, New York, and from Merck and Company, Rahway, New Jersey, to Harvard University.

2

A preliminary report of this investigation was included in the Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, May 1, 1950 (J. Clin. Invest., 1950, 29, 814).

Find articles by Davidson, C. in: PubMed | Google Scholar

Published May 1, 1954 - More info

Published in Volume 33, Issue 5 on May 1, 1954
J Clin Invest. 1954;33(5):780–789. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI102948.
© 1954 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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