Does hormonal therapy have any benefit for bleeding angiodysplasia?

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 99-103

  Lewis, Blair S ^a   Salomon, Peter ^a   Rivera MacMurray, Suzette ^a   Kornbluth, Asher A ^a   Wenger, Jeffrey ^a   Waye, Jerome D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiodysplasia; Arteriovenous malformations; Estrogen; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Hormonal therapy; Osler weber rendu; Renal failure; Small bowel enteroscopy; Von willebrand disease

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN; MESTRANOL; MESTRANOL PLUS NORETYNODREL; NORETYNODREL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTALGIA; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; ESTROGENS, CONJUGATED; ESTROGENS, SYNTHETIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MESTRANOL; MIDDLE AGE; NORETHYNODREL;

EID: 0026761028     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199209000-00004     Document Type: Article

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