Life-threatening hypersplenism due to idiopathic portal hypertension in early childhood: Case report and review of the literature

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Däbritz, Jan ^a   Worch, Jennifer ^a   Materna, Ulrike ^a   Koch, Bernward ^a   Koehler, Gabriele ^a   Duck, Christina ^a   Frühwald, Michael C ^a   Foell, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 QUINOLINOL INDIUM IN 111; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENDOTHELIN 1; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIBODY; PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE GASTROPATHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; FEVER; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC PORTAL HYPERTENSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER SIZE; LIVER VEIN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; PANCYTOPENIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN WIDTH; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPLEEN BLOOD FLOW; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC HYPERPERFUSION; SPLENOMEGALY; STOMACH DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; ULTRASOUND; URINE RETENTION; VASCULAR PATENCY; BIOPSY; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BIOPSY; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 77957978984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-10-122     Document Type: Article

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