Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations Predict Mortality in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease

• Benedict Kinny-Köster,

  Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Michael Bartels,

  Affiliation Department of Visceral, Vascular, Thoracic and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Susen Becker,

  Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, LIFE – Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Markus Scholz,

  Affiliations LIFE – Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Joachim Thiery,

  Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, LIFE – Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Uta Ceglarek ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Uta Ceglarek, Thorsten Kaiser

  Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, LIFE – Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Thorsten Kaiser

  Contributed equally to this work with: Uta Ceglarek, Thorsten Kaiser

  * E-mail: thorsten.kaiser@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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