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See Latest ArticlesDetermination of correlation of Adjusted Blood Requirement Index with outcome in patients presenting with acute variceal bleeding
World Journal of Gastroenterology, 05/21/09
Akhtar N et al. - A total of 113 patients (76 male; 37 female) were included. On assessment, 18 were in Child's Pugh Class A, 82 in Class B and 13 were in Class C. The median number of blood units transfused ' inter-quartile range was 3.0 ' 2.0. The median ' inter-quartile range for ABRI was 1.3 ' 1.1. The ROC curve of ABRI for expiry showed a significantly large area of 0.848. A significant correlation of log transformation of ABRI with an outcome of mortality was present. ABRI correlates strongly with mortality.
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