Use of recombinant factor VIIa for life-threatening bleeding in a patient with severe necrotizing pancreatitis [2]

Pancreas

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 292-294

  Borrás Blasco, Joaquín ^a   Conesa García, Venancio ^a   Navarro Ruiz, Andrés ^a   Palacios Ortega, Francisco ^a   Gòmez, Amparo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; APROTININ; DESMOPRESSIN; FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; FACTOR VII; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 25844520432     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mpa.0000175164.33609.6c     Document Type: Letter

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