Ischemic Colitis Revisited: A Prospective Study Identifying Hypercoagulability as a Risk Factor

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 120-123

  Midian Singh, Robin ^a   Polen, Ann ^a   Durishin, Catherine ^a   Crock, Ronald D ^a,b   Whittier, Frederick C ^a   Fahmy, Nabil ^a  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Affiliated Hospitals at Canton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ADENINE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; GUANINE; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S; PROTHROMBIN;

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C RESISTANCE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1242269249     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000066655.54770.88     Document Type: Article

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