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Portal Hypertension [PDF]

open access: yesPostgraduate Medical Journal, 1947
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Portal Hypertension [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1963
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Portal Hypertension

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2019
Portal hypertension (PH) is a clinical syndrome resulting from the combination of increased portal blood flow and increased portal resistance and characterized by an increase in the portosystemic gradient beyond the physiological value of 5 mmHg. PH is a common complication in patients with chronic liver disease, both adults and children, and its major
Di Giorgio A., D'Antiga L.
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Portal hypertension

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 1997
Significant advances in the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of the complications of portal hypertension that have occurred in the last year are reported.The specific areas reviewed are those that refer to experimental studies aimed at modifying the factors that lead to portal hypertension (increased intrahepatic vascular resistance and ...
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PORTAL HYPERTENSION

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2001
Many advances in the management of portal hypertension and variceal hemorrhage have occurred during the last 10 years. Effective therapy for primary prevention of variceal hemorrhage is now available in the form of nonselective beta-blockers. Active bleeding should be managed with terlipressin, somatostatin or its analogues, and endoscopic therapy ...
N, Garcia, A J, Sanyal
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Portal Hypertension

Medical Clinics of North America, 1989
Portal hypertension is a frequent syndrome characterized by a chronic increase in portal venous pressure and by the formation of portal-systemic collaterals. Its main consequence is massive bleeding from ruptured esophageal and gastric varices. Bleeding is promoted by increased portal and variceal pressure, and is favored by dilatation of the varices ...
J, Bosch   +4 more
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Portal‐hypertensive gastropathy

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 1998
ABSTRACTIn the present article we describe updated information concerning the clinical feature of portal‐hypertensive gastropathy (PHG), which is characterized by mucosal and submucosal vascular dilatation without inflammation. Although this lesion represents non‐variceal bleeding, there is a wide variation of its prevalence.
Tadashi Iwao, Atsushi Toyonaga
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Portal Hypertensive Enteropathy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America, 2006
The available data on the use of VCE in patients who have cirrhosis and portal hypertension are inadequate to reach a firm conclusion about the usefulness of this diagnostic tool in this patient population. In fact, only retrospective case series exist, in which the characteristics of the patients are heterogeneous in terms of severity of liver disease
E. Rondonotti   +3 more
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