Sentence examples for intractable bleeding from inspiring English sources

Intractable bleeding unresponsive to conventional haemostatic measures is an uncommon but potentially life threatening surgical complication.

Stylianos reported 22 children 6 days to 20 years of age in whom intractable bleeding from the liver was controlled by gauze packing, and 90% of these cases were associated with coagulopathy, hypothermia, and acidosis.

Published reports cite success with RF7a administration in massive intractable bleeding.

The aspirin that relieves pain can cause intractable bleeding; the chemotherapy that arrests cancer can carry debilitating side effects; and the operation that replaces diseased livers requires toxic immunosuppressive drugs.

Recombinant Factor VIIa (rFVIIa) has been used to decrease bleeding in a number of settings, including hemophilia, liver transplantation, intractable bleeding, and cirrhosis.

There have been increasing numbers of reports of "off-label" use of the recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) to achieve hemostasis in various situations including traumatic intractable bleeding [1, 2], cardiac surgery [3, 4], and obstetrical massive bleeding [4].

As the therapeutic use of a barium enema has recently been shown to be a useful procedure to treat diverticular bleeding [ 23, 24], we thought that the use of a therapeutic barium enema could also be a practical and less invasive option for controlling such intractable appendix bleeding.

We have recently introduced it into our cardiac surgical programme for severe intractable coagulopathic bleeding.

A study from Bangladesh describes a balloon condom catheter to treat intractable uterine bleeding, but provides no clinical data [ 74].

These authors suggest that in cases of intractable obstetric bleeding, where there is no other obvious case for hysterectomy, rFVIIa should be considered before resort to radical surgery.

Almost all patients with unresectable tumours die within several months and have poor quality of life (QOL) due to intractable ascites or oesophageal bleeding.