Treatment has consisted of procedures designed to reduce portal pressure and symptomatic measures to relieve presenting signs and symptoms. Splenomegaly Although portal pressure and the size of ...

The development of new drugs targeting portal pressure reduction is also a key ... endoscopic sequential therapy, and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in acute EVB, as well as ...

Direct measurement of portal vein pressure is technically difficult and associated with a high risk of complications. Giday et al. now report successful direct measurement of portal vein pressure ...

SEQUELAE of portal hypertension directly or indirectly constitute the principal cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic liver disease. The pathologic physiology of this state is incompletely ...