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Zolmitriptan: a novel portal hypotensive agent which synergizes with propranolol in lowering portal pressure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 OBJECTIVE: Only a limited proportion of patients needing pharmacological control of portal hypertension are hemodynamic responders to propranolol.
Mercedes Reboredo +13 more
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Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 2020 Aim: The aim was to study the correlation of hepatic artery resistive index (HARI) with the portal pressure (PP) and its surrogate marker serum nitric oxide (NO) levels and to determine the validity of HARI as noninvasive indirect marker of PP in ...
Abhishek Gupta +5 more
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Managing liver cirrhotic complications: Overview of esophageal and gastric varices [PDF]
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2020 Managing liver cirrhosis in clinical practice is still a challenging problem as its progression is associated with serious complications, such as variceal bleeding that may increase mortality.
Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana +2 more
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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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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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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 Venous Pressure Variation during Hepatectomy: A Prospective Study
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2019 Introduction: Excessive portal venous pressure in the liver remnant is an independent factor in the occurrence of posthepatectomy liver failure and small-for-size syndrome. The baseline portal pressure prior to hepatectomy was not considered previously.
Jorge Gomes Carrapita +8 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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Pharmaceutics, 2020 Background: Portal hypertension is characterized by exaggerated activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis. Natriuretic peptide system plays a counter-regulatory role, which is modulated by neprilysin.
Shao-Jung Hsu +6 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 Portal hypertension (PHT) resulting from splanchnic vasodilatation is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cirrhosis. The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in splanchnic vasodilatation in cirrhosis.
Lakmie S. Gunarathne +3 more
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