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Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2018 The morbidity of chronic pancreatitis (CP) remains at a high level. Over the past thirty years, more than doubled growth in the number of patients with chronic pancreatitis has been noted.
V. I. Pylypchuk
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EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement with a simple novel device: a human pilot study. [PDF]
VideoGIE, 2018 Background and aimsPortal hypertension is a serious adverse event of liver cirrhosis. Recently, we developed a simple novel technique for EUS-guided portal pressure gradient (PPG) measurement (PPGM).
Samarasena JB +7 more
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Acta Medica Indonesiana, 2022 Background: Liver cirrhosis causes over one million deaths annually worldwide, but its prognosis varies depending on the presence of complications and decompensating events.
Raksheeth Agarwal, Wismandari Wisnu
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Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy: the Twilight Zone [PDF]
, 2014 As one of the major complication of liver cirrhosis, portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) should be an interesting topic to study. Until now the exact mechanism on how this phenomenon happened is yet, not clear.1 The occurrence of PHG is quite high in ...
Gani, R. A. (Rino)
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Beta-blockers to prevent gastroesophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis. [PDF]
, 2005 BACKGROUND: Nonselective beta-adrenergic blockers decrease portal pressure and prevent variceal hemorrhage. Their effectiveness in preventing varices is unknown.
Bosch, J +12 more
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Imaging Approach to Portal Hypertension
Journal of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology, 2023 Increase in portal venous pressure (termed portal hypertension) is seen in a variety of liver diseases. Imaging tests are useful to detect portal hypertension and identify its cause.
Antony Augustine +5 more
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Portal Pressure Responses to Catecholamines
Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1972 SummaryThe effects of norepinephrine and epinephrine (0.1 and 1.0 μg kg-1) upon portal, arterial, and central venous pressures were measured during drug injections into the portal vein, vena cava, and hepatic artery of anesthetized dogs. The small dose of norepinephrine and epinephrine evoked maximal increases in portal pressure when injected into the ...
Kenneth G. Swan +2 more
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Murine study of portal hypertension associated endothelin-1 hypo-response [PDF]
, 2015 AIM: To investigate endothelin-1 hypo-responsive associated with portal hypertension in order to improve patient treatment outcomes. METHODS: Wild type, eNOS(-/-) and iNOS(-/-) mice received partial portal vein ligation surgery to induce portal ...
Maluccio, Mary +2 more
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Blood mobilization from the liver of the anaesthetized dog [PDF]
, 1998 The abdominal circulation contains a high proportion of the total blood volume and this can change either passively in response to changes in vascular distending pressure or actively (termed a capacitance response) to changes in sympathetic nervous ...
Drinkhill, M.J. +3 more
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Hepatic venous pressure gradient: clinical use in chronic liver disease [PDF]
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2014 Portal hypertension is a severe consequence of chronic liver diseases and is responsible for the main clinical complications of liver cirrhosis. Hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) measurement is the best available method to evaluate the presence and
Ki Tae Suk
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