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Embolia cutis medicamentosa: an unusual adverse reaction to terlipressin

Terlipressin is a synthetic long-acting analog of vasopressin widely used to control variceal bleeding by lowering portal venous pressure. We report an unusual adverse reaction to terlipressin in a 78-year-old patient with esophageal variceal bleeding who developed skin necrosis soon after treatment...

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Autores principales: Gatos-Gatopoulos, Polychronis, Kostantoudakis, Stephanos, Panayiotides, Ioannis G., Dimitriadis, George D., Triantafyllou, Konstantinos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5670294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118569
http://dx.doi.org/10.20524/aog.2017.0158