“The next step was to explore whether long-term administration of simvastatin could reduce portal pressure in patients with cirrhosis without further impairing the hepatic circulation and liver ...

Child's paper, "The Portal Circulation," which appeared in the ... listed by the author as indicating a more favorable state of hepatic compensation is to be encouraged. In average hospital ...

Collectively, these veins are called the hepatic portal ... is a shunt placed inside the liver that carries blood directly ...

Hepatic vein thrombosis should be suspected when ascites, liver enlargement ... or the presence of collateral circulation through the retroperitoneal, vertebral, intercostal, and azygos veins ...