Acute hemorrhagic rectal ulcer: An important cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding in the critically ill patients

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3631-3637

  Lin, Cheng Kuan ^a   Liang, Cheng Chao ^a   Chang, Hou Tai ^a   Hung, Fang Ming ^a   Lee, Tzong Hsi ^a  

^a FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute hemorrhagic rectal ulcer; Colonoscopy; Intensive care unit; Lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC RECTUM ULCER; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ULCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM DISEASE; TAIWAN; TIME; ULCER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLONOSCOPY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; ULCER;

EID: 84856137476     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1759-y     Document Type: Article

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