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 ...

From the Department of Surgery, Tufts College Medical School, the Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Clinic and the New England Center Hospital. † Professor of surgery, Tufts College Medical School ...

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.

13 noted that in all their splenoportograms that demonstrated portal hypertension ... which empty into the splenic vein. On the right in about 50 per cent of cases the fundic plexus empties ...

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

Retrospectively, we report risk factors and prognostic data on 67 patients with PVT referred to a single centre university hospital in Denmark between 1992 and 2005. Only 11% of our PVT patients ...

portal vein thrombosis, noncompliance with sodium restriction, or the presence of carcinoma that is likely to limit the patient's lifespan to less than 1 year. Relative contraindications include ...

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