Prevention of Variceal Recurrence, Bleeding, and Death in Cirrhosis Patients with Hypersplenism, Especially Those with Severe Thrombocytopenia

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 54, 2003, Pages 1766-1769

  Ohmoto, Kenji ^a   Yamamoto, Shinichiro ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combined therapy; Endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL); Esophageal varices; Long term prognosis; Partial splenic embolization (PSE); Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN BLOOD FLOW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS;

EID: 0344530772     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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