Twenty-five patients with hypersplenism caused by portal hypertension were treated by repeated partial splenic embolization ... year because of the underlying liver disease.

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 ...

This state is called portal hypertension ... vein is the main blood vessel carrying blood to the liver from the stomach, ...

which shows that the drug decreases portal hypertension and improves liver perfusion in patients with cirrhosis. Complications of portal hypertension include the development of esophageal varices ...

Methods: Seventy patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension were prospectively ... was significantly correlated with the resected spleen volume. One month after the operation, PHG ...