Comparison of endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy alone and in combination with octreotide in controlling acute variceal hemorrhage and early rebleeding in patients with low-risk cirrhosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 768-771

  Zuberi, Bader Faiyaz ^a   Baloch, Qamaruddin ^a  

^a Sukkur Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANSOPRAZOLE; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE; OCTREOTIDE; SUCRALFATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARYNGITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMACH VARICES; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCTREOTIDE; RECURRENCE; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034001811     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00917-X     Document Type: Article

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