Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia (Watermelon Stomach) in Patients With ESRD

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Stefanidis, Ioannis ^a   Liakopoulos, Vassilios ^a   Kapsoritakis, Andreas N ^a   Ioannidis, Iraklis ^a   Eleftheriadis, Theodoros ^a   Mertens, Peter R ^a   Winograd, Ron ^a   Vamvaka, Eva ^a   Psychos, Athanasios K ^a   Potamianos, Spiros P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

end stage renal disease (ESRD); Gastric antral vascular ectasia; hemodialysis (HD); peritoneal dialysis (PD); watermelon stomach

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; ALLOPURINOL; ALPRAZOLAM; CARNITINE; ESOMEPRAZOLE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; SEVELAMER; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VASCULAR LESION;

AGED; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC ANTRAL VASCULAR ECTASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PYLORIC ANTRUM;

EID: 33646813337     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2006.02.185     Document Type: Article

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