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Can somatostatin control acute bleeding from oesophageal varices in Schistosoma mansoni patients?[ISRCTN63456799]

BACKGROUND: Management of patients with bleeding oesophageal varices comprises of mainly diagnostic endoscopy, sclerotherapy and band ligation. One of the major problems to do any of the above is the active bleeding which makes any intervention difficult. The neuropeptide hormone somatostatin admini...

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Autores principales: Chatterjee, Shyama, Van Marck, Eric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15596012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-4-58