Gastrointestinal bleeding in older adults

Practical Gastroenterology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 15-42

  Trivedi, Chirag D ^a   Pitchumoni, C S ^b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SAINT PETER S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OCTREOTIDE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; VASOPRESSIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; CRYSTALLOID; DISEASE COURSE; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PEPTIC ULCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; STOMACH LAVAGE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

EID: 33645790691     PISSN: 02774208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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