Gastrointestinal bleeding diagnosed by red blood cell scintigraphy in a patient with aortic stenosis: A case of Heyde syndrome

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 231-235

  Corrêa, Patrícia L ^a   Felix, Renata C M ^b   Azevedo, Jader C ^b   Silva, Paulo R D ^b   Oliveira Jr , Amarino C ^b   Cortes, Denise ^b   Dohmann, Hans F R ^b   Mesquita, Cláudio T ^b  

^a HOSPITAL PRÓ CARDÍACO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Red blood scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEYDE SYNDROME; HUMAN; JEJUNUM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCINTIGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 15444363604     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000155984.14938.28     Document Type: Article

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