Outcome after injection sclerotherapy for esophageal variceal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis and COPD

Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 76-80

  Farooqi, Rukhsana Javed ^a,b   Farooqi, Javed Iqbal ^a,b   Masood ur Rehman, ^a,b   Ahmad, Hameed ^a,b   Ahmad, Farooq ^a,b   Gul, Sultan ^a,b  

^a KHYBER TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b LADY READING HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; COPD; Variceal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MELENA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23844494494     PISSN: 10135472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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