An ideal drug for this condition would reduce portal pressure while maintaining or improving hepatic blood flow. Portal hypertension in cirrhosis is mainly the result of increased resistance to ...

Blood ammonia values obtained during the ammonium ... artery flow has been demonstrated before with interruption of portal flow to the liver 25 and provided the rationale for the operation ...

8 Constriction of the splanchnic arterioles is the most logical explanation of diminution of intrahepatic blood flow and portal pressure recorded in Case 1. Pitressin administration to patients ...