Pharmacological Reduction of Portal Pressure and Long-Term Risk of First Variceal Bleeding in Patients with Cirrhosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 506-512

  Turnes, Juan ^a   Garcia Pagan, Juan Carlos ^a,b   Abraldes, Juan G ^a   Hernandez Guerra, Manuel ^a   Dell'Era, Alessandra ^a   Bosch, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; PROPRANOLOL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAUSE OF DEATH; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PORTAL PRESSURE; RISK; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33644783067     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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