Acute gastrointestinal bleeding

Seminars in Gastrointestinal Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 44-65

  Green, Bryan T ^b   Rockey, Don C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MISOPROSTOL; MOTILIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OCTREOTIDE; OMEPRAZOLE; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RANITIDINE; SECRETIN; SOMATOSTATIN; SUCRALFATE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DIEULAFOY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; DUODENITIS; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; META ANALYSIS; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; POLYPECTOMY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH EROSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS;

EID: 0037816439     PISSN: 10495118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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