Improved survival of patients presenting with acute variceal bleeding. Prognostic indicators of short- and long-term mortality

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 899-904

  Thomopoulos, K ^a   Theocharis, G ^a   Mimidis, K ^b   Lampropoulou Karatza, Ch ^a   Alexandridis, E ^b   Nikolopoulou, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Portal hypertension; Prognostic indicators; Variceal bleeding

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SHOCK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750975606     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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