Associating portal congestive gastropathy and hepatic fibrosis in hepatosplenic mansoni schistosomiasis

Acta Tropica

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 240-243

  Dias, Heloisa Soares ^a   Domingues, Ana Lúcia Coutinho ^a   Cordeiro, Fernando Tarcísio Miranda ^a   Jucá, Norma ^a   Lopes, Edmundo Pessoa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis; Liver fibrosis; Mansoni schistosomiasis; Portal hypertension; Portal hypertensive gastropathy; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; DISEASE TREATMENT; DISEASE VECTOR; PARAMETERIZATION; PARASITE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATOSPLENIC CHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PORTAL CONGESTIVE GASTROPATHY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH DISEASE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 84875359310     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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