Effect of erythromycin before endoscopy in patients presenting with variceal bleeding: A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-250

  Altraif, Ibrahim ^a   Handoo, Fayaz A ^a   Aljumah, Abdulrahman ^a   Alalwan, Abduljaleel ^a   Dafalla, Mutasim ^a   Saeed, Abdullah Mohamed ^a   Alkhormi, Abdulrahman ^a   Albekairy, Abdul Karim ^a   Tamim, Hani ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN LACTOBIONATE; ESOMEPRAZOLE; OCTREOTIDE; PLACEBO; POLIDOCANOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON LAVAGE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; STOMACH EMPTYING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VARIX BLEEDING;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC EMPTYING; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551682092     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.09.043     Document Type: Article

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