Direct Costs of Care in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Endoscopic Sclerotherapy versus Emergency Portacaval Shunt for Bleeding Esophageal Varices in Cirrhosis—Part 4

BACKGROUND: Emergency treatment of bleeding esophageal varices (BEV) in cirrhotic patients is of prime importance because of the high mortality rate surrounding the episode of acute bleeding. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of randomized controlled trials of emergency surgical therapy and no report...

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Autores principales: Orloff, Marshall J., Isenberg, Jon I., Wheeler, Henry O., Haynes, Kevin S., Jinich-Brook, Horacio, Rapier, Roderick, Vaida, Florin, Hye, Robert J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3023018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20824373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11605-010-1332-6

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