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Serum omentin and vaspin levels in cirrhotic patients with and without portal vein thrombosis
Michał Kukla, Marek Waluga, Michał Żorniak, Agnieszka Berdowska, Piotr Wosiewicz, Tomasz Sawczyn, Rafał J Bułdak, Marek Ochman, Katarzyna Ziora, Tadeusz Krzemiński, Marek Hartleb
Michał Kukla, Marek Waluga, Michał Żorniak, Piotr Wosiewicz, Marek Hartleb, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-752 Katowice, Poland
Agnieszka Berdowska, Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Jan Długosz University, 42-200 Częstochowa, Poland
Tomasz Sawczyn, Department of Physiology, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Rafał J Bułdak, Department of Biochemistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Marek Ochman, Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Katarzyna Ziora, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Tadeusz Krzemiński, Department of Pharmacology, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland
Author contributions: Kukla M contributed to study design, data collection, data interpretation, manuscript preparation, literature search, funds collection, critical revisions related to important intellectual content of the manuscript; Waluga M contributed to data collection, data interpretation, manuscript preparation, literature search, funds collection, critical revisions related to important intellectual content of the manuscript; Żorniak M contributed to data collection, manuscript preparation; Berdowska A contributed to statistical analysis; Wosiewicz P contributed to literature search, data collection; Sawczyn T and Bułdak RJ contributed to data interpretation, data collection; Ochman M contributed to manuscript preparation, funds collection; Ziora K contributed to data interpretation, literature search; Krzemiński T contributed to data collection; Hartleb M contributed to data interpretation, manuscript preparation, literature search, funds collection, critical revisions related to important intellectual content of the manuscript.
Supported by Medical University of Silesia- Contract, No. KNW1-090/N/6/0.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by Department of Science of Medical University of Silesia in Katowice.
Informed consent statement: All study participants provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicts of interest to report.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Michał Kukla, MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Medyków14 street, 40-752 Katowice, Poland.
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Received: September 11, 2016
Peer-review started: September 12, 2016
First decision: November 21, 2016
Revised: February 24, 2017
Accepted: March 15, 2017
Article in press: March 15, 2017
Published online: April 14, 2017
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