Management and predictors of early mortality in elderly patients with iron deficiency anemia: A prospective study of 111 patients

Gastroenterologie Clinique et Biologique

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-174

  Nahon, Stéphane ^a   Lahmek, Pierre ^a   Aras, Nazmye ^a   Poupardin, Cécile ^a   Lesgourgues, Bruno ^a   Macaigne, Gilles ^b   Delas, Nicolas ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Le Raincy Montfermeil   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier de Lagny   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CORTICOSTEROID; IRON; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DUODENUM DISEASE; DUODENUM ULCER; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; EROSION; EROSIVE GASTRITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JEJUNUM ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION INJURY; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH TUMOR; STOMACH ULCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 33947133863     PISSN: 03998320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0399-8320(07)89350-X     Document Type: Article

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