The vital threat of an upper gastrointestinal bleeding: Risk factor analysis of 121 consecutive patients

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3597-3601

  Schemmer, Peter ^a   Decker, Frank ^a   Dei Anane, Genevieve ^a   Henschel, Volkmar ^a   Buhl, Klaus ^a   Herfarth, Christian ^a   Riedl, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mortality; Risk factors; UGI bleeding

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM ULCER; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STOMACH ULCER; THREAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

EID: 33745712669     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i22.3597     Document Type: Article

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