For patients without cancer and cirrhosis, mean age at time ... with extrahepatic PVT also had intrahepatic thrombosis (54%) and/or in the splenic vein (42%), and/or in superior mesenteric vein ...
Diagnostic inclusion criteria were partial or complete thrombosis ... portal hypertensive gastropathy, ascites), extension of the thrombus (intra- and/or extrahepatic, superior mesenteric vein ...
Causes of portal hypertension can be prehepatic (such as portal vein thrombosis), hepatic (commonly liver cirrhosis and hepatic fibrosis) or posthepatic (such as hepatic vein obstruction).
Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a challenging complication in liver cirrhosis, with no currently available sensitive diagnostic markers. This study aimed to investigate the potential of neutrophil ...
This is called portal vein thrombosis. Barring cirrhosis, other risk factors include malignancy, intra-abdominal infections, abdominal trauma, and intra-abdominal surgery (e.g., splenectomy).