Child-Turcotte-Pugh Class is Best at Stratifying Risk in Variceal Hemorrhage: Analysis of a US Multicenter Prospective Study

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 446-453

  Fortune, Brett E ^a   Garcia Tsao, Guadalupe ^a   Ciarleglio, Maria ^b   Deng, Yanhong ^b   Fallon, Michael B ^c   Sigal, Samuel ^d   Chalasani, Naga P ^e   Lim, Joseph K ^a   Reuben, Adrian ^f   Vargas, Hugo E ^g   Abrams, Gary ^h   Lewis, Michele D ⁱ   Hassanein, Tarek ^j   Trotter, James F ^k   Sanyal, Arun J ^l   Beavers, Kimberly L ^f   Ganger, Daniel ^m   Thuluvath, Paul J ⁿ   Grace, Norman D ^o   Groszmann, Roberto J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UT Physicians Digestive Disease Center   (United States)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h Alabama Liver and Digestive Specialists   (United States)

ⁱ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^j Southern California Liver Centers   (United States)

^k Liver Consultants of Texas   (United States)

^l VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

cirrhosis; GI bleeding; mortality; risk stratification

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; NORFLOXACIN; VAPREOTIDE;

ACUTE VARICEAL HEMORRHAGE; ADULT; AGE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENDER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STOMACH VARICES BLEEDING; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIRUS HEPATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84992313466     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0000000000000733     Document Type: Article

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