Percentage of small platelets on peripheral blood smear and Child-Turcott-Pugh class can predict the presence of oesophageal varices in newly diagnosed patients with cirrhosis: development of a prediction model for resource limited settings

BACKGROUND: In cirrhosis upper-gastrointestinal-endoscopy (UGIE) identifies oesophageal varices (OV). UGIE is unavailable in most resource-limited settings. Therefore, we assessed prediction of presence of OV using hematological parameters (HP) and Child-Turcott-Pugh (CTP) class. METHODS: A prospect...

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Autores principales: Perera, K., Kodisinghe, S. K., Ediriweera, D. S., Moratuwagama, D., Williams, S., Pathmeswaran, A., Niriella, M. A., de Silva, H. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31349807
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1054-5

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