Bears, beets, rifaximin

Peter L Wang¹, Jennifer A Flemming^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Peter L Wang et al. Can Liver J. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 11;4(4):438-442.

doi: 10.3138/canlivj-2021-0026. eCollection 2021 Fall.

Peter L Wang¹, Jennifer A Flemming^{1

2}

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: hepatic encephalopathy; rifaximin; TIPS.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have nothing to disclose.

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