Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in octogenarians: Clinical outcome and factors related to mortality

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 4047-4053

  Theocharis, George J ^a   Arvaniti, Vassiliki ^a,b   Assimakopoulos, Stelios F ^a   Thomopoulos, Konstantinos C ^a   Xourgias, Vassilis ^b   Mylonakou, Irini ^b   Nikolopoulou, Vassiliki N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TZANEIO GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding; Co morbidity; Elderly; Mortality; Octogenarians

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ENBUCRILATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SOMATOSTATIN; UREA;

AGE; AGED; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLIP; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCLEROTHERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH VARICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREECE; HEMOSTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREECE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; PEPTIC ULCER; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; UREA;

EID: 53449093840     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.4047     Document Type: Article

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