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A 36-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for the eighth time because of confusion, lethargy, nausea, and vomiting of 3 weeks duration; he had been discharged from the hospital only 3.5 weeks earlier.
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Levinsky, N.G. (1983). Refractory Ascites in Cirrhosis. In: Cohen, J.J., Harrington, J.T., Kassirer, J.P. (eds) Nephrology Forum. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5465-2_7
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