If your liver is damaged severely, it can cause permanent scarring that can affect how the organ functions. Alcohol and drug use, viruses, or metabolic factors can cause cirrhosis. The scarring ...

Among the 93 patients, 52 (55.91%) were HBV antigen positive, 5 (5.38%) were HCV antibody positive, and 48 (51.61%) were diagnosed with liver cirrhosis. In most cases, the tumors were relatively large ...

An important differential diagnosis is constrictive pericarditis or other obstructive cardiac causes ... vein into an outflow tract (reversed portal flow), thus decompressing the sinusoids ...

In addition, patients with extrahepatic PVT also had intrahepatic thrombosis (54%) and/or in the splenic vein ... symptoms in the acute disease. In the analysis of patients with cancer or ...

In this patient, imaging ruled out both hepatic and portal vein thrombosis. Therefore, an intrahepatic process was considered to be the most likely cause of splenomegaly and ascites. As cirrhosis ...

Liver cirrhosis (OR, 5.18; 95% CI, 1.85-14.47), portal vein resection (OR, 5.07; 95% CI, 2.20-11.66), and right-sided hepatectomy (OR, 6.26; 95% CI, 1.80-21.76) were significant risk factors for PVT.

Their family are being supported by specially trained officers. “One man, aged 33, has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury through dangerous driving, drink driving, and drug ...

These may be symptoms of a blood clot, or deep vein thrombosis (DVT ... Liver Disease Cirrhosis happens if the liver develops permanent scarring from disease or damage. Scarring interferes ...