Aortic valve replacement: A last resort for aortic stenosis-associated refractory GI bleeding

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 139-141

  Singh, Pankaj ^a   Scoyni, Robert ^a   Pooran, Nakechand ^a   Visvalingam, Vernu ^a   Palazzo, Robert ^a   Coopersmith, Helise ^a   Stark, Bernard ^a   Bank, Simmy ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; SALBUTAMOL;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TACHYCARDIA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; INTESTINE; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INTESTINES;

EID: 0036633709     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2002.125108     Document Type: Article

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