Idiopathic portal hypertension complicating systemic sclerosis: A case report

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Moschos, John ^a   Leontiadis, Grigoris I ^a   Kelly, Clive ^a   Henry, James ^a   Kadis, Savvas ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCIUM; LANSOPRAZOLE; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; SPIRONOLACTONE; TERLIPRESSIN; VITAMIN D;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GASTROSCOPY; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; MELENA; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PERITONEAL FLUID; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEROLOGY; SPLENOMEGALY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TUBE; LIVER CIRCULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MELENA; PORTAL SYSTEM; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 25444510864     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-5-16     Document Type: Article

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