Prediction of outcome following acute variceal haemorrhage

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 91-95

  Garden, O J ^a   Motyl, H ^a   Gilmour, W H ^a   Utley, R J ^a   Carter, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

injection sclerotherapy; oesophageal varices; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

BRAIN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS TAMPONADE; ESOPHAGUS TRANSECTION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PHLEBOSCLEROSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SURVIVAL; THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CREATININE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK;

EID: 0021995152     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800720205     Document Type: Review

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