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 ...

For example, a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) is a shunt placed inside the liver that carries blood ...

“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 ...

[10] The well-recognized hyperdynamic circulation in ... capacity of the cirrhotic liver and the affected enterohepatic circle. If we add to these conditions, the portal hypertensive enteropathy ...

A distinctive feature, however, is the association with intrahepatic or subcapsular hepatic venous collateral vessels. This collateral circulation is the most sensitive feature for the diagnosis ...

However, in dogs with PSS, this blood bypasses the liver due to an abnormal connection - shunt - between the portal vein - or one of its branches - and another vein, leading directly to the general ...