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Platelet count can predict the grade of esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients: a cross-sectional study

Background: Bleeding from esophageal varices is a life-threatening complication in cirrhosis. Screening endoscopy is recommended in cirrhotic patients to identify patients at risk of variceal hemorrhage, but this is an invasive procedure and has limitations. Therefore, thrombocytopenia has been prop...

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Autores principales: Afsar, Anum, Nadeem, Muhammad, Shah, Syed Asim Ali, Hussain, Huma, Rani, Aysha, Ghaffar, Sadaf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8729194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35035881
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.28005.2