Assessment of intrahepatic blood flow by Doppler ultrasonography: Relationship between the hepatic vein, portal vein, hepatic artery and portal pressure measured intraoperatively in patients with portal hypertension

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Li ^a   Yin, Jikai ^a   Duan, Yunyou ^a   Yang, Yilin ^a   Yuan, Lijun ^a   Cao, Tiesheng ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAMPING INDEX; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC ARTERY PULSATILITY INDEX; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BLOOD FLOW; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN VELOCITY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; VEIN COMPLIANCE; WAVEFORM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER VEIN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960557929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-11-84     Document Type: Article

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