Presence of bacterial infection in bleeding cirrhotic patients is independently associated with early mortality and failure to control bleeding

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2752-2757

  Vivas, Santiago ^a   Rodriguez, Manuel ^a   Palacio, M Antonia ^a   Linares, Antonio ^a   Alonso, Jose Luis ^a   Rodrigo, Luis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial infection; Cirrhosis; Portal hypertension; Variceal bleeding

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 0035214286     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012739815892     Document Type: Article

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