Alcoholic versus nonalcoholic cirrhosis in a randomized controlled trial of emergency therapy of bleeding varices

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-105

  Orloff, Marshall J ^a   Isenberg, Jon I ^a   Wheeler, Henry O ^a   Haynes, Kevin S ^a   Jinich Brook, Horacio ^a   Rapier, Roderick ^a   Vaida, Florin ^a   Hye, Robert J ^a   Orloff, Susan L ^b  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alcoholic; bleeding esophageal varices; cirrhosis; emergency portacaval shunt; endoscopic sclerotherapy; nonalcoholic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; SCLEROTHERAPY;

EID: 84859108957     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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