Somatostatin Reduces Gastric Mucosal Blood Flow in Patients with Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy: A Randomized, Double-Blind Crossover Study

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2440-2446

  Li, Michael K K ^b   Sung, Joseph J Y ^a   Woo, K S ^b   Sanderson, John ^b   Leung, Nancy W Y ^b   Yu, L M ^b   Tsui, C P ^b   Chung, S C Sydney ^b   Leung, Felix W ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gastric mucosal blood flow; Portal hypertensive gastropathy; Reflectance spectrophotometry; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH MUCOSA BLOOD FLOW;

AGED; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SOMATOSTATIN; STOMACH DISEASES; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0030452238     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02100140     Document Type: Article

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