Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding management in Portugal: A multicentric prospective 1-year survey

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 317-322

  Arroja, Bruno ^a   Cremers, Isabelle ^a   Ramos, Rui ^a   Cardoso, Cláudia ^a   Rego, Ana Catarina ^a   Caldeira, Ana ^a   Eliseu, Liliana ^a   Silva, João Dinis ^a   Glória, Luísa ^a   Rosa, Isadora ^a   Pedrosa, José ^a  

^a Hospital de Santo Andre   (Portugal)

Author keywords

colonoscopy; endoscopic hemostasis; gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIVITAMIN K; ENEMA; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLITIS; COLON ULCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORRHOID; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POLYP; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM ULCER; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954415547     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e328344ccb5     Document Type: Article

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