Restoration of hepatic blood outflow can be achieved by ... The procedure is suitable for patients with portal vein thrombosis. [71] The development of percutaneous angioplasty has made this ...

Two blood vessels supply your liver with blood. They are the hepatic artery and the hepatic portal vein. Just before it reaches the liver, the blood in the portal vein comes through the gut (digestive ...

The pathophysiology involves elevated static pressure in the portal vein, collateral circulation ... biomarkers for measuring portal pressure or hepatic venous pressure gradient, which are ...

THE effect of increased intra-abdominal pressure due to ascites upon portal and systemic hemodynamics ... withdrawal of ascitic fluid upon hepatic-vein wedge pressure, inferior-vena-cava pressure ...

Hepatic vein thrombosis should be suspected when ascites, liver enlargement, and upper abdominal pain are simultaneously present, or when intractable ascites contrasts with mildly altered liver ...