Therapeutic approach to "downhill" esophageal varices bleeding due to superior vena cava syndrome in Behcet's disease: A case report

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tavakkoli, Hamid ^a   Asadi, Mehrnaz ^a   Haghighi, Mahshid ^a   Esmaeili, Abbas ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Poursina Hakim Research Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HYDROCORTISONE; OCTREOTIDE; PREDNISOLONE; RANITIDINE; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RESUSCITATION; SAFETY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; VEIN LIGATION;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME;

EID: 33846536273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-6-43     Document Type: Article

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