Prospective study comparing different indirect methods to measure portal pressure

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1553-1558

  Maleux, Geert ^a   Willems, Endry ^a   Fieuws, Steffen ^b   Heye, Sam ^a   Vaninbroukx, Johan ^a   Laleman, Wim ^a   Cassiman, David ^a   Verslype, Chris ^a   Nevens, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

inferior vena cava; IVC; MELD; Model for End stage Liver Disease; PH; portal hypertension; portal pressure; PP; wedged hepatic venous pressure; WHVP

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BALLOON CATHETER; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; END HOLE CATHETER; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; OCCLUSION BALLOON CATHETER; PIGTAIL CATHETER; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VENOUS PRESSURE; WEDGED HEPATIC VENOUS PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BELGIUM; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80054901404     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: 15357732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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