Fatal N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate pulmonary embolism after sclerotherapy for variceal bleeding

Endoscopy

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 687-

  van Beek, A P ^a,b   van Erpecum, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ENBUCRILATE; HEPARIN; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; PROPRANOLOL; WATER;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS TRANSECTION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NOTE; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; STOMACH VARICES; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ENBUCRILATE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY;

EID: 23044525123     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861427     Document Type: Note

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