In addition, cirrhosis distorts the liver's structure, causing blood congestion in the portal vein and, ultimately, raising ...

Portal hypertension is an abnormal increase in blood pressure defined clinically as hepatic venous pressure gradient 5 mmHg in the hepatic portal vein system. Causes of portal hypertension ...

Portal hypertension in cirrhosis is mainly the result ... treatment by insertion of a catheter into the main right hepatic vein to measure wedged and free hepatic vein pressures.

The portal vein thrombosis is an important and well-known cause of portal hypertension in young patients. Cavernous transformation of portal vein may be a sequel of portal vein thrombosis. Here the ...

Increased pressure in the portal vein may lead to the development of large, swollen veins within the esophagus, stomach or rectum. The veins can rupture and bleed, resulting in potentially ...

Researchers studied 20 patients who were assigned to 12 weeks of supplemental oxygen for 16 or more hours a day or no oxygen ...

Splenomegaly was due to high back pressure in splenic vein because of portal hypertension. Liver and other structures were normal. There was no finding of cirrhosis of liver. For further evaluation, ...

We report the cases of two renal transplant recipients suffering from idopathic portal hypertension, a condition characterised by increased portal venous pressure in the absence of both histological ...

1 However, PHG can also occur in patients without cirrhosis. It can be associated with non cirrhotic portal hypertension, extrahepatic portal vein obstruction, Budd Chiari syndrome and Helicobacter ...

Portal hypertension is high blood pressure in the portal vein, which brings blood from your child’s intestine to their liver. It happens when something blocks the flow of blood to or through the liver ...