Upright posture blunts postprandial splanchnic hyperemia in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 359-365

  Iwao, Tadashi ^a   Oho, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakano, Ryohichi ^a   Yamawaki, Makoto ^a   Sakai, Teruhiro ^a   Sato, Masahiro ^a   Miyamoto, Yasunao ^a   Sakai, Kenji ^a   Sata, Michio ^a   Toyonaga, Atsushi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Echo doppler flowmetry; Hemodynamics; Postprandial; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SPLEEN ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPINE POSITION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FASTING; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; POSTURE; SOFTWARE; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0032783420     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350050274     Document Type: Article

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