Management of variceal hemorrhage: Current status

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 763-765

  Bai, Yu ^a   Li, Zhao Shen ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NORFLOXACIN; OCTREOTIDE; PLACEBO; SOMATOSTATIN; TERLIPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN;

BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; SCLEROTHERAPY; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BALLOON DILATATION; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 68249139768     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.07.001     Document Type: Editorial

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