The effectiveness of current acute variceal bleed treatments in unselected cirrhotic patients: Refining short-term prognosis and risk factors

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1872-1878

  Amitrano, Lucio ^a   Guardascione, Maria Anna ^a   Manguso, Francesco ^a   Bennato, Raffaele ^a   Bove, Antonio ^a   Denucci, Claudio ^a   Lombardi, Giovanni ^a   Martino, Rossana ^a   Menchise, Antonella ^a   Orsini, Luigi ^a   Picascia, Salvatore ^a   Riccio, Elisabetta ^a  

^a CARDARELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CREATININE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAND LIGATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SENGSTAKEN BLAKEMORE TUBE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ITALY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84870832693     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2012.313     Document Type: Article

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