Upper and Lower Intestinal Tract Bleeding

Upper and Lower Intestinal Tract Bleeding
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 207-388 (April 2008)
Edited by G.N.J. Tytgat and M.E. van Leerdam


Contents

• Aims&scope/editorial board

• Preface

• Epidemiology of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding

• Epidemiology of lower gastrointestinal bleeding

• Usefulness of prognostic indices in upper gastrointestinal bleeding

• Current endoscopic and pharmacological therapy of peptic ulcer bleeding

• Current endoscopic therapy of variceal bleedingAcute variceal bleeding: Pharmacological treatment and primary/secondary prophylaxis

• Management of lower gastrointestinal tract bleeding

• Vascular lesions of the gastrointestinal tract

• Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: Role of videocapsule and double-balloon enteroscopy

• Therapeutic options for endoscopic haemostatic failures: the place of the surgeon and radiologist in gastrointestinal tract bleeding

• The role of blood transfusion in the management of upper and lower intestinal tract bleeding

• Future expectations in the prophylaxis of intestinal bleeding

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