Dual Portal Hypertension in Hepatic Tuberculosis: A Case Report
Background: Hepatic tuberculosis in itself is a rare condition, and that causing portal hypertension is even rarer. We present a unique clinical scenario of portal hypertension in a 64-year-old woman, with tuberculosis causing both sinusoidal ...
Amal Joseph +3 more
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Portopulmonary hypertension practice patterns after liver transplantation
Abstract Portopulmonary hypertension (POPH) is a type of pulmonary arterial hypertension occurring exclusively in those with portal hypertensive liver disease. Liver transplantation (LT) can significantly improve outcomes. Current guidelines counsel against immediate adjustments to targeted therapy after LT and suggest routine echocardiography as ...
Arun Jose +3 more
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Simple blood tests to diagnose compensated advanced chronic liver disease and stratify risk of clinically significant portal hypertension. [PDF]
BACKGROUND AIMS Compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD) identifies patients at risk for clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH), and thus, for liver-related complications. Limited availability of liver stiffness measurements (LSM)
Aigner, Elmar +21 more
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Serum tests, liver stiffness and artificial neural networks for diagnosing cirrhosis and portal hypertension [PDF]
BACKGROUND The diagnostic performance of biochemical scores and artificial neural network models for portal hypertension and cirrhosis is not well established.
Robic, Marie Angele +11 more
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Invasive and non Invasive methods to diagnose portal hypertension
Assessing the presence of clinically significant portal hypertension and esophageal varices is clinically important in cirrhosis. The reference standard techniques to assess the presence of portal hypertension and varices are the measurement of the ...
R. de Franchis, A. Dell’Era
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Landmark studies on clinically significant portal hypertension and decompensated cirrhosis
The presence of clinically significant portal hypertension and decompensated cirrhosis heralds a significant change in a patient’s trajectory, with an associated high morbidity and mortality.
Tsochatzis, Emmanouil +3 more
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Idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension: current perspectives
Oliviero Riggio,1 Stefania Gioia,1 Ilaria Pentassuglio,1 Valeria Nicoletti,1 Michele Valente,2 Giulia d’Amati2 1Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Portal Hypertension, 2Department of Radiological, Oncological,
Riggio O +5 more
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miRNA-122 could not predict portal hypertension.
AUROC analysis demonstrated that we unfortunatelydid not succeeded to define a cut-off value to predict portal hypertension. (A) AUC of 0.639 (p = 0.214) for detecting an HVPG of 5mmHG.
Mattias Mandorfer (584776) +14 more
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Yu-Jen Chen,1– 3 Ming-Chih Hou,1– 3 Tsung-Chieh Yang,1– 3 Pei-Chang Lee,1– 3 Hsiao-Sheng Lu,1– 3 Hui-Chun Huang,1– 3 Yi-Hsiang Huang,2,4,5 Jiing-Chyuan Luo1– 3 1Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General ...
Chen YJ +7 more
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Navigating Tumor Thrombus: Transhepatic Portal Vein Stenting in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor
Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) are typically indolent but may occasionally present with advanced disease involving major vascular structures.
Saurabh Kumar +2 more
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