Z Gastroenterol 2017; 55(09): 883-936
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-116856
Leitlinie
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S2k-Leitlinie Gastrointestinale Blutung

AWMF-Register Nr. 021–28S2k Guideline Gastrointestinal BleedingGuideline of the German Society of Gastroenterology DGVS
Martin Götz
1   Innere Medizin I, Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie, Infektiologie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
,
Mario Anders
2   Klinik für Innere Medizin, Vivantes Wenckebach-Klinikum
,
Erwin Biecker
3   Abteilung Innere Medizin, Zollernalb Klinikum
,
Christian Bojarski
4   Medizinische Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Infektiologie und Rheumatologie, Charité – Campus Benjamin Franklin
,
Georg Braun
5   III. Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Augsburg
,
Thorsten Brechmann
6   Medizinische Klinik I, Klinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Berufsgen. Kliniken Bergmannsheil
,
Alexander Dechêne
7   Klinik für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen
,
Matthias Dollinger
8   Medizinische Klinik I, Klinikum Landshut
,
Meinrad Gawaz
9   Innere Medizin III, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
,
Ralf Kiesslich
10   II. Medizinische Klinik, HSK Dr.-Horst-Schmidt-Kliniken
,
Dieter Schilling
11   Medizinische Klinik II, Diakonissenkrankenhaus Mannheim
,
Frank Tacke
12   Medizinische Klinik III, Universitätsklinikum Aachen
,
Alexander Zipprich
13   Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik Innere Medizin I, Universitätsklinikum Halle
,
Jonel Trebicka
14   Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
15   European Foundation for Study of Chronic Liver Failure, Barcelona, Spain
,
Collaborators:
› Author Affiliations
Fachgesellschaften: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS) (federführend), Deutschen Morbus Crohn und Colitis ulcerosa Vereinigung (DCCV), Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft (DRG), Deutsche Gesellschaft für interventionelle Radiologie (DeGiR), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie (DGAV) und Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Endoskopie und Sonographie (CAES) der DGAV, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internistische Intensivmedizin (DGIIN), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin (DGIM), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie (DGK), Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin (AEM), Gesellschaft für Thrombose- und Hämostaseforschung (GTH)
Further Information

Publication History

Publication Date:
12 September 2017 (online)

Ansprechpartner für die Aktualisierung

Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Petra Lynen Jansen
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs-und Stoffwechselkrankheiten
Olivaer Platz 7
10 707 Berlin
Tel. 030/3198 315 003
lynen@dgvs.de

 
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