Failure to control variceal bleeding: Definition matters
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Adjusted blood requirement index as indicator of failure to control acute variceal bleeding.
AIM To estimate the clinical value of adjusted blood requirement index (ABRI) in relation to other criteria for failure of variceal bleeding control proposed at Baveno consensus workshops and to evaluate ABRI as an early predictor of occurrence of other Baveno criteria and identification of possible predictors of unfavorable ABRI. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the data on 60 patients ad...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hepatology
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0168-8278
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.01.012