Mortality, recurrence, and hospital course of patients with systemic sclerosis-related acute intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2049-2054

  Mecoli, Christopher ^a   Purohit, Shivani ^b   Sandorfi, Nora ^b   Derk, Chris T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical; Gastrointestinal; Intestinal; Obstruction; Scleroderma; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INFUSION FLUID; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OCTREOTIDE;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE SURGERY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; AGED; COMPLICATION; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; RECURRENCE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84957456000     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.131547     Document Type: Article

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