Gastrointestinal bleeding: Blood transfusion for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 432-434

  Villanueva, Càndid ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; AGE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNITY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PROCEDURES;

ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84938687005     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2015.116     Document Type: Short Survey

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