To the Editor: I have read with great interest Dr. Child's paper, "The Portal Circulation," which appeared ... as indicating a more favorable state of hepatic compensation is to be encouraged.

Collectively, these veins are called the hepatic portal venous system ... Liver health is essential to keeping this part of ...

Portal hypertension is an abnormal increase in blood pressure defined clinically as hepatic venous pressure gradient 5 mmHg in the hepatic portal vein system. Causes of portal hypertension ...