Secondary haemorrhage after rubber band ligation of haemorrhoids in patients taking clopidogrel - A cautionary note

Ulster Medical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-141

  Beattie, G C ^a   Rao, M M ^a   Campbell, W Jeffrey ^a  

^a SOUTH EASTERN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISOPROLOL; CLOPIDOGREL; INFUSION FLUID; NICORANDIL; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COLOSTOMY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIGATION; NAUSEA; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; TICLOPIDINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11344262458     PISSN: 00416193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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