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Combined Fasting Serum C4 and Primary Bile Acids From a Single Stool Sample to Diagnose Bile Acid Diarrhea
Priya Vijayvargiya1, Michael Camilleri1, Ann Taylor1
1Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (C.E.N.T.E.R.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Gastroenterology
|July 10, 2020
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