Prognostic factors with the use of the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for bleeding varices

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 626-632

  Tyburski, James G ^a   Noorily, Michael J ^a   Wilson, Robert F ^a  

^a DETROIT RECEIVING HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030915934     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430300068014     Document Type: Article

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