Gastric Mucosal Damage Evaluated by Transnasal Endoscopy and QOL Assessments in Ischemic Heart Disease Patients Receiving Low-dose Aspirin

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 539-544

  Watanabe, Masataka ^a   Kawai, Takashi ^a   Takata, Yoshifumi ^a   Yamashina, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fact finding study; Low dose aspirin; Outcome; Quality of life; Transnasal endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE CAVITY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH ULCER;

AGED; ASPIRIN; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NASAL CAVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 84857079317     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4361     Document Type: Article

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