Acute Variceal Hemorrhage in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Weekend versus Weekday Admissions
Yonsei Medical Journal
;
: 318-327, 2012.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Little is known about the impact of weekend admission on acute variceal hemorrhage (AVH). Thus, we investigated whether day of admission due to AVH influenced in-hospital mortality. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 294 patients with cirrhosis admitted between January 2005 and February 2009 for the management of AVH. Clinical characteristics were compared between patients with weekend and weekday admission, and independent risk factors for in-hospital mortality were determined by multivariate binary logistic regression analysis.RESULTS:
No demographic differences were observed between patients according to admission day or in the clinical course during hospitalization. Seventeen (23.0%) of 74 patients with weekend admission and 48 (21.8%) of 220 with weekday admission died during hospitalization (p=0.872). Univariate and subsequent multivariate analysis showed that initial presentation with hematochezia [p=0.042; hazard ratio (HR), 2.605; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.038-6.541], in-patient status at the time of bleeding (p=0.003; HR, 4.084; 95% CI, 1.598-10.435), Child-Pugh score (p<0.001; HR, 1.877; 95% CI, 1.516-2.324), and number of endoscopy sessions for complete hemostasis (p=0.001; HR, 3.864; 95% CI, 1.802-8.288) were independent predictors for in-hospital mortality.CONCLUSION:
Weekend admission did not influence in-hospital mortality in patients with cirrhosis who presented AVH.
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Main subject:
Time Factors
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Logistic Models
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Retrospective Studies
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Risk Factors
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Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
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Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
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Hospitalization
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Liver Cirrhosis
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Yonsei Medical Journal
Year:
2012
Type:
Article
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