THE dangers of surgery in patients with liver disease have long been recognized but poorly understood. With the recent development of venous-shunt surgery for the relief of portal hypertension a ...

DURING the past fifteen years an increasing number of portasystemic shunts have been performed at the Lahey Clinic. Some patients did not fit into the accepted criteria for operability 1–7; yet a ...

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2005;2(6):246-247. For centuries, gastrointestinal bleeding has been recognized as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with pathology of the ...

Cirrhotic ascites results from sinusoidal hypertension and sodium retention, which is secondary to a decreased effective arterial blood volume. Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) ...

Acquired SEPS are associated with portal hypertension, cirrhosis, and complications of decompensation. In particular, the effects of NVEPS on portal pressure are variable, but there is evidence of ...

Charles D. Burger, MD: Portopulmonary hypertension is a subgroup of Group 1 pulmonary arterial hypertension [PAH], and it occurs in the setting of hepatic cirrhosis or end-stage liver disease. When ...

Patients with idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension had a high risk for major surgical and portal hypertension-related complications if they also had extrahepatic conditions related to their ...

SAN DIEGO — Patients with cirrhosis treated with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors show significant reductions in a range of portal hypertension complications and all-cause mortality ...

For centuries, gastrointestinal bleeding has been recognized as a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with pathology of the portal circulation. By contrast, a fuller understanding of ...