A cerebrovascular event after single-dose administration of recombinant factor VIIa in a patient with esophageal variceal bleeding

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1647-1649

  Akyildiz, Murat ^a   Turan, Ilker ^a   Ozutemiz, Omer ^a   Batur, Yucel ^a   Ilter, Tankut ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Complication of cirrhosis; Esophageal variceal bleeding; Portal Hypertension; Recombinant factor VIIa

Indexed keywords

NORFLOXACIN; OMEPRAZOLE; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; TERLIPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FACTOR VII; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCLEROTHERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748632165     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-005-9023-y     Document Type: Article

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