Comparison of scoring systems and outcome of patients admitted to a liver intensive care unit of a tertiary referral centre with severe variceal bleeding

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1286-1300

  Al Freah, M A B ^a   Gera, A ^a   Martini, S ^a   McPhail, M J W ^a   Devlin, J ^a   Harrison, P M ^a   Shawcross, D ^a   Abeles, R D ^a   Taylor, N J ^a   Auzinger, G ^a   Bernal, W ^a   Heneghan, M A ^a   Wendon, J A ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE VARICEAL BLEEDING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELD SCORING SYSTEM; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFA SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VEIN DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LACTIC ACID; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900007308     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apt.12744     Document Type: Article

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