Adjusted blood requirement index as indicator of failure to control acute variceal bleeding

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 398-403

  Duvnjak, Marko ^a   Baršić, Neven ^a   Tomašić, Vedran ^a   Jukić, Lucija Virović ^a   Lerotić, Ivan ^a   Pavić, Tajana ^a  

^a SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33745219663     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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