Transfusion strategies for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-21

  Villanueva, Càndid ^a,b   Colomo, Alan ^a,b   Bosch, Alba ^a   Concepción, Mar ^a   Hernandez Gea, Virginia ^a   Aracil, Carles ^a   Graupera, Isabel ^a,b   Poca, María ^a   Alvarez Urturi, Cristina ^a   Gordillo, Jordi ^a   Guarner Argente, Carlos ^a   Santaló, Miquel ^a   Muñiz, Eduardo ^a   Guarner, Carlos ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT FAILURE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

EID: 84871730245     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1211801     Document Type: Article

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