Emergency management of bleeding esophageal varices: Drugs, bands or sleep?

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 165-170

  Yan, Brian M ^a   Lee, Samuel S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute variceal bleeding; Band ligation; Octreotide; Sclerotherapy; Somatostatin; Terlipressin; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; ETHANOLAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; OCTREOTIDE; POLIDOCANOL; SOMATOSTATIN; TERLIPRESSIN; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM; VAPREOTIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; BALLOON; BRAIN DISEASE; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG COST; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MECHANISM; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOSTASIS; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; INFECTION; LIGATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPHANGITIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MESENTERIC BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEIZURE; SKIN DISEASE; SLEEP; STROKE; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; THERAPY DELAY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREMOR; URTICARIA; VOMITING;

EID: 33645928298     PISSN: 08357900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2006/743783     Document Type: Review

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