The Model for the End-Stage Liver Disease and Child-Pugh score in predicting prognosis in patients with liver cirrhosis and esophageal variceal bleeding

Vojnosanitetski Pregled

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 724-728

  Benedeto Stojanov, Daniela ^a   Nagorni, Aleksandar ^a   Bjelaković, Goran ^a   Stojanov, Dragan ^b   Mladenović, Bojan ^a   Djenić, Nebojša ^c  

^a Clinical Centre Nis   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Radiology   (Serbia)

^c Military Hospital   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Esophageal and gastric varices; Liver cirrhosis; Liver diseases; Prognosis; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70449364793     PISSN: 00428450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/VSP0909724B     Document Type: Article

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