Localizing an occult gastrointestinal bleeding by wireless PillCam SB capsule videoendoscopy in a patient with the HeartMate II left ventricular assist device

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Bechtel, J F Matthias ^a   Wellhöner, Peter ^a   Charitos, Efstratios I ^a   Bucsky, Bence ^a   Morshuis, Michiel ^b   Sievers, Hans H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; HEMOGLOBIN; PHENPROCOUMON;

AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA BALLOON; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INOTROPISM; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK;

AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CECAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC;

EID: 77949492437     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.08.073     Document Type: Article

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