Management of lower gastrointestinal tract bleeding

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 295-312

  Barnert, J ^a   Messmann, H ^a  

^a KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

angiodysplasia; angiography; colitis; colon; colonoscopy; diverticulum; electrocoagulation; endoscopic therapy; gastrointestinal haemorrhage; haematochezia; haemostasis; laser coagulation; neoplasms; radionuclide imaging; rectum

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ALCOHOL; BARIUM; ETHANOLAMINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLIDOCANOL; TECHNETIUM 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIEULAFOY DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOID HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HIGH FIBER DIET; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ULCER; RECURRENCE RISK; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTISCANNING; THERMOCOAGULATION; VEIN LIGATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EPINEPHRINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; RECURRENCE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 40649087853     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2007.10.024     Document Type: Article

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