Correlation of platelets count with endoscopic findings in a cohort of Egyptian patients with liver cirrhosis

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 2016, Pages

  Abd Elsalam, Sherief ^a   Habba, Eslam ^a   Elkhalawany, Walaa ^a   Tawfeek, Salwa ^b   Elbatea, Hassan ^c   El Kalla, Ferial ^a   Soliman, Hanan ^a   Soliman, Samah ^a   Yousef, Mohamed ^a   Kobtan, Abdelrahman ^a   Nawasany, Sally El ^a   Awny, Sheren ^a   Amer, Ibrahim ^c   Mansour, Loai ^a   Rizk, Fatma ^a  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b National Research Institute   (Egypt)

^c KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Esophageal varices; FIB 4; Platelets; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EGYPTIAN; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD; DUPLEX DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; EGYPT; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTE;

BLOOD PLATELETS; EGYPT; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84975450210     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003853     Document Type: Article

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