Hepatic venous pressure gradient measurement in patients with liver cirrhosis: A correlation with disease severity and variceal bleeding;Kepenų venų spaudimo gradiento matavimas kepenų ciroze sergantiems pacientams: Ryšys su kepenų ligos sunkumo laipsniu ir varikoziniu kraujavimu

Medicina

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-13

  Šilkauskaite, Vilma ^a   Pranculis, Andrius ^b   Mitraite, Dalia ^b   Jonaitis, Laimas ^a   Petrenkiene, Vitalija ^a   Kupčinskas, Limas ^a  

^a Kardiologijos institutas   (Lithuania)

^b Radiologijos Klinika   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Child Turcotte Pugh score; Hepatic venous pressure gradient; Portal hypertension; Variceal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL PRESSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61949157310     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina45010002     Document Type: Article

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