Prospective randomized trial of emergency portacaval shunt and emergency medical therapy in unselected cirrhotic patients with bleeding varices

Hepatology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 863-872

  Orloff, Marshall J ^a,c,e   Bell, Richard H ^a,b,e   Orloff, Mark S ^a,e   Hardison, William G M ^a,e   Greenburg, A Gerson ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; EMERGENCIES; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0028017551     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840200414     Document Type: Article

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