Emergency Oesophageal Transection to Control Bleeding Varices
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Bleeding oesophageal varices ROGER
IN BRINGING this Symposium to a close, I shall deal with one of the most dramatic and lethal complications of liver disease-rupture of an oesophageal varix. These patients die from loss of blood or liver failure, or more usually, a combination of both factors. The development of liver failure with increasing jaundice, ascites and hepatic coma is inevitable if bleeding is allowed to continue. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107688307600321