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Consensus for management of portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis (2020, Shanghai)

Journal of Digestive Diseases, Volume 22, Issue 4, Page 176-186, April 2021., 2021
A stepwise treatment strategy of cirrhotic portal vein thrombosis recommended by the Chinese consensus. Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a common and severe complication of liver cirrhosis. So far, there have been few consensuses or practice guidelines on the management of PVT in liver cirrhosis.
Hepatobiliary Disease Study Group, Chinese Society of Gastroenterology, Chinese Medical Association   +2 more
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Global Consequences of Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014
Liver ischemia/reperfusion injury has been extensively studied during the last decades and has been implicated in the pathophysiology of many clinical entities following hepatic surgery and transplantation. Apart from its pivotal role in the pathogenesis of the organ’s post reperfusion injury, it has also been proposed as an underlying mechanism ...
Constantinos Nastos, Konstantinos Kalimeris, Nikolaos Papoutsidakis, Marios-Konstantinos Tasoulis, Panagis M. Lykoudis, Kassiani Theodoraki, Despoina Nastou, Vassilios Smyrniotis, Nikolaos Arkadopoulos, Mengzhou Xue   +9 more
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Improved Survival with the Patients with Variceal Bleed

International Journal of Hepatology, Volume 2011, Issue 1, 2011., 2011
Variceal hemorrhage is a major cause of death in patients with cirrhosis. Over the past two decades new treatment modalities have been introduced in the management of acute variceal bleeding (AVB) and several recent studies have suggested that the outcome of patients with cirrhosis and AVB has improved. Improved supportive measures, combination therapy
Praveen Sharma, Shiv K. Sarin, Deepak Amarapurkar   +2 more
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Epsilon-aminocaproic acid for treatment of fibrinolysis during liver transplantation [PDF]

, 1987
In 97 adult patients receiving liver transplants, the coagulation system was monitored by thrombelastography and by coagulation profile including PT; a PTT; platelet count; level of factors I, II, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, and XII; fibrin degradation ...
Bontempo, FA, Kang, Y, Lewis, JH, Navalgund, A, Niren, LS, Russell, MW, Starzl, TE   +6 more
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Primary prevention and management of variceal bleeding: Review of Historical Evidence [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Prevention and control of active bleeding caused by portal hypertension is still a challenge. Surgery used to be the only option in the earlier days, but now many options exist.
Suliman, MOM
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Abernethy Malformation and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: a Serious Consequence of a Rare Disease [PDF]

, 2020
Congenital portosystemic shunts (CPSS) are a rare vascular consequence of embryogenetic vascular alterations or the persistence of the fetal circulation elements, first described by John Abernethy in 1793 and classified by Morgan and Superina, into ...
Carvalho, AM, Jaklitsch, M, Pinto Marques, H, Sobral, M   +3 more
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A rare cause of congenital portosystemic shunt: type 2 Abernethy malformation [PDF]

, 2020
The Abernethy malformation is characterised by congenital extrahepatic portosystemic shunts and is divided into two groups according to the type of anastomosis.
Danisan, G., Kantarci, M., Ogul, H., Taydas, O.   +3 more
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Portal Decompression Using the Inferior Mesenteric Vein

HPB Surgery, Volume 10, Issue 6, Page 365-370, 1998., 1997
We report five patients with variceal hemorrhage, in three cases secondary to diffuse thrombosis of the portal, superior mesenteric and splenic veins. Mesenteric angiography demonstrated patency of the inferior mesenteric vein (IMV) in each, and successful portal decompression by anastomosis of the IMV to the left renal vein (n=4) or the inferior vena ...
Paolo Gorini, Kaj Johansen
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Easy to say, hard to do. To the anniversary of two fundamental discoveries. Part 2 [PDF]

, 2022
On the eve of the anniversaries of two historical events: the 145th anniversary of the experiments in which Eck's fistula was performed and the 55th anniversary of the successful clinical approbation of the selective distal splenorenal anastomosis, a ...
A. Yu. Anisimov
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Extrahepatic Portal Hypertension following Liver Transplantation: a Rare but Challenging Problem

HPB Surgery, Volume 10, Issue 6, Page 357-364, 1998., 1997
This study reports our experience of 8 cases of extrahepatic portal hypertension after 273 orthotopic liver transplantations in 244 adult patients over a 10‐ year period. The main clinical feature was ascites, and the life‐threatening complication was variceal bleeding.
B. Malassagne, O. Soubrane, B. Dousset, P. Legmann, D. Houssin   +4 more
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