Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 376, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1054-1063

  Gralnek, Ian M ^a,b   Neeman, Ziv ^a   Strate, Lisa L ^c  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; ATORVASTATIN; CLOPIDOGREL; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHORESIS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ACUTE DISEASE; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINAL DISEASES; SCINTISCANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING;

EID: 85015776958     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1603455     Document Type: Article

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