In severe cases, hepatic encephalitis can affect consciousness ... directly from the portal veins into the systemic ...

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 ...

The antiphospholipid syndrome associated with hepatic vein thrombosis has usually been of the primary type; that is, the American Rheumatism Association criteria for the diagnosis of systemic ...

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 ...

Hepatic vein thrombosis should be suspected when ... An increased pressure gradient across the stenosis, or the presence of collateral circulation through the retroperitoneal, vertebral ...

“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 ...