Acute variceal bleed in a patient with idiopathic myelofibrosis successfully treated with endoscopic variceal band ligation

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 173-175

  Goh, Brian K P ^a   Chen, Juliana J C ^a   Tan, Hiang Khoon ^a   Yong, Wei Sean ^a   Chan, Weng Hoong ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bleeding varices; Idiopathic myelofibrosis; Portal hypertension; Variceal band ligation; Variceal haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; SOMATOSTATIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOID; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEART RATE; HEMATEMESIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MYELOID METAPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; RESUSCITATION; SPLENOMEGALY; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE; VARICEAL BAND LIGATION; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MYELOFIBROSIS; SPLENIC VEIN; SPLENOMEGALY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846333924     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9733-9     Document Type: Article

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