New insights into the pathophysiology of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease using capsule endoscopy

Haematologica

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1003-1004

  Shapira, Michael Y ^a   Adler, Samuel N ^b   Jacob, Harold ^b   Resnick, Igor B ^a   Slavin, Shimon ^a   Or, Reuven ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation; Bowel motility; Capsule endoscopy; Gastroparesis; Graft versus host disease; Stunned intestine

Indexed keywords

METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE VILLUS; MALABSORPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEPSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINAL FISTULA;

EID: 22544438169     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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