Renovascular impedance correlates with portal pressure in patients with liver cirrhosis

Radiology

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 581-586

  Berzigotti, Annalisa ^a   Casadei, Andrea ^a   Magalotti, Donatella ^a   Castaldini, Nicola ^a   Losinno, Francesco ^a   Rossi, Cristina ^a   Zoli, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RENAL ARTERY; RENOVASCULAR IMPEDANCE; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL PRESSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33746224272     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2401050585     Document Type: Review

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