Umbilical hernia repair in patients with signs of portal hypertension: Surgical outcome and predictors of mortality

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 864-869

  Cho, Sung W ^a   Bhayani, Neil ^a   Newell, Pippa ^a   Cassera, Maria A ^a   Hammill, Chet W ^a   Wolf, Ronald F ^a   Hansen, Paul D ^a  

^a PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCITES; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSEMINATED CANCER; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

FEMALE; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866518863     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2012.1663     Document Type: Article

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