A 10-Year Prospective Evaluation of Balloon Tube Tamponade and Emergency Injection Sclerotherapy for Actively Bleeding Oesophageal Varices

During a 10 year study period 234 patients were admitted on 371 occasions with a total of 566 acute variceal bleeding episodes. Of these, 173 patients had 343 variceal bleeds which required balloon tamponade to achieve initial control of bleeding during 229 admissions and were then referred for emer...

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Main Authors: Kahn, D., Bornman, P. C., Terblanche, J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1989
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423523/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2487387
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1989/98263
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