Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sustained virologic response correlated with reduced hepatic venous pressure gradient in patients with ...

Just like the hypertension that people develop when their blood pressure increases, the increase of blood pressure in the main vein that supplies blood to the liver, called the portal vein, is also a ...

Portal hypertension is a severe, almost unavoidable complication of chronic liver diseases and is responsible for the main clinical consequences of cirrhosis. Measurement of the hepatic venous ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . VIENNA — Emricasan missed its primary endpoint of hepatic venous pressure gradient reduction in all patients ...

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands — Nonselective beta-blocker therapy improves gastrointestinal permeability and decreases intestinal bacterial translocation in patients with cirrhosis and esophageal varices ...

The mechanism by which patients with portal hypertension develop portal hypertensive gastropathy has yet to be fully clarified. Its pathogenesis is known to be multifactorial, involving elevations in ...

Lucknow: Hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG), special medical test to gauge pressure inside liver, was performed for the first time at KGMU. HVPG is an important test used across the world to ...

A new review highlights how combining multiple ultrasound techniques may help detect and assess portal hypertension in liver cirrhosis BERN, CANTON OF BERN ...

Sildenafil, a drug also sold as Viagra and known for treating erectile dysfunction (male impotence) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), does not influence blood flow in patients with cirrhosis, ...

Just like the hypertension that people develop when their blood pressure increases, the increase of blood pressure in the main vein that supplies blood to the liver, called the portal vein, is also a ...