A recanalized umbilical vein can occur in the context of portal hypertension, traveling along the falciform or round ligament (13), as can be seen in Figure 7. The collateral system can drain into the ...

The chapter on portal hypertension and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension has many fascinating illustrations with a large number of “invasive” studies, including transhepatic portal vein ...

Causes of portal hypertension can be prehepatic (such as portal vein thrombosis), hepatic (commonly liver cirrhosis and hepatic fibrosis) or posthepatic (such as hepatic vein obstruction).

The use of umbilical arterial catheters (UACs) has been a standard of practice for 30 years in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).

Portal vein thrombosis can occur in patients with nephrotic syndrome. Learn key diagnostic and treatment considerations by reading this Case Study of a 52-year-old man admitted with abdominal pain.

WINREVAIR significantly reduced the risk of clinical worsening events in recently diagnosed PAH patients over 70 percent of whom were on double background therapy HYPERION, third Phase 3 study to ...

Echocardiography articles from across Nature Portfolio Echocardiography is ultrasonography of the heart. The procedure is usually performed by placing an ultrasound-emitting transducer against the ...

Here, the mechanism of vasorelaxant Mas receptor (MasR) expression elevated by hesperidin in spontaneously hypertensive rats was investigated in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). HUVECs ...

Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is an uncommon, potentially life-threatening condition characterised by blood clot formation in the portal vein, leading to obstruction of portal blood flow. It is often ...

Gradient Denervation Technologies, a company that makes an ultrasound device for PH, will join an FDA program to speed device development.

Objective Pathological neovascularisation is intimately involved in portal hypertension (PH). Here, we determined the contribution of vascular stem/progenitor cells (VSPCs) to neovessel growth in PH ...

Ambrisentan for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension: results of the ambrisentan in pulmonary arterial hypertension, randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, multicenter, efficacy ...