The efficacy of octreotide therapy in chronic bleeding due to vascular abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1429-1436

  Nardone, G ^a   Rocco, A ^a   Balzano, T ^a   Budillon, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HYPOTHALAMUS RELEASE INHIBITING FACTOR; OCTREOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETREATMENT; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; THROMBOCYTE ANOMALY; UREMIA; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GASTRIC ANTRAL VASCULAR ECTASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCTREOTIDE;

EID: 0032720829     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.1999.00647.x     Document Type: Article

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