Palliative Use of Aminocaproic Acid to Control Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
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Persistent gastrointestinal bleeding successfully treated with aminocaproic acid.
A previously well 79-year-old woman presented with a short history of breathlessness. She had been on no drug therapy apart from iron tablets. She drank no alcohol, ate an adequate diet and denied dyspepsia and melaena. Examination showed her to be pale. She had a regular pulse of 90/min and a blood pressure of 150/90 mmHg. A systolic murmur was audible over the whole precordium, the jugular ve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.06.004