Wedged hepatic venous pressure does not reflect portal pressure in patients with cirrhosis and hepatic veno-venous communications

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-13

  Osada, Yuji ^a   Kanazawa, Hidenori ^a   Narahara, Yoshiyuki ^a   Mamiya, Yasutaka ^a   Nakatsuka, Katsuhisa ^a   Sakamoto, Choitsu ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcoholic cirrhosis; Hepatitis C cirrhosis; Portal hypertension; Portal pressure; Wedged hepatic vein pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 37449026053     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-007-0039-3     Document Type: Article

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