Risk Factors for Developing Hyponatremia during Terlipressin Treatment: A Retrospective Analyses in Variceal Bleeding

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 607-612

  Yim, Sun Young ^a   Seo, Yeon Seok ^a   Jung, Chang Ho ^a   Kim, Tae Hyung ^a   Kim, Eun Sun ^a   Keum, Bora ^a   Kim, Ji Hoon ^a   An, Hyonggin ^a   Yim, Hyung Joon ^a   Yeon, Jong Eun ^a   Jeen, Yoon Tae ^a   Lee, Hong Sik ^a   Chun, Hoon Jai ^a   Byun, Kwan Soo ^a   Um, Soon Ho ^a   Kim, Chang Duck ^a   Ryu, Ho Sang ^a  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

body mass index; hyponatremia; terlipressin; variceal bleeding

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; SODIUM; TERLIPRESSIN; LYPRESSIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; AGE; AGED; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CREATININE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; LYPRESSIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 84937735484     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0000000000000217     Document Type: Article

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