Portal Hypertension Symptoms and Their ComplicationsPortal hypertension is a condition in which increased pressure within the portal vein—an important vessel that carries blood from the stomach ...

Let us look at one statement that AssureWeb made as part of its announcement. It claims to have 24,000 registered users but a far more valid measure of the use of a portal is the number of regular ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure can help treat portal vein hypertension and other complications of advanced liver disease. Learn more here.

Portal vein thrombosis, a complication of cirrhosis, has an annual incidence of 4% in Spain, with risk factors being use of beta-blockers and hepatic encephalopsy, investigators reported during ...

Portal vein endothelial injury also increases the risk for thrombosis [5,14] associated with intra-abdominal inflammation or infection, acute cholecystitis, hepatic abscess, umbilical vein ...

The significant results are presented in Table 1, with comparable observations in groups of patients without liver disease and with Laënnec's cirrhosis.The wedged hepatic-vein pressures were ...