NOUN
- increase in blood pressure in the veins of the portal system caused by obstruction in the liver (often associated with alcoholic cirrhosis), causing enlargement of the spleen and collateral veins
How To Use portal hypertension In A Sentence
- Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
- Portal hypertension with bleeding varices is a serious complication of cirrhosis that can be treated surgically and with drug therapy.
- Conversely, there was no significant association with portal hypertension.
- Over half of the patients exhibit clinical signs associated with portal hypertension, such as ascites and hepatorenal syndrome.
- Other post-op complications include portal hypertension, malabsorption and rickets.
- The diagnosis of cirrhosis was established by biopsy or by signs of portal hypertension such as gastroesophageal varices, previous variceal bleeding, or ascites.
- Discussion Portal hypertension usually complicates the evolution of chronic liver diseases.
- Objective:To investigate the clinical value of liver vascular index(LVI) in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
- This dominant hepatic fibrosis with minimal renal involvement leads to portal hypertension and varices.
- Decisions regarding appropriate organ transplantation may depend on whether pulmonary hypertension is primary or secondary to portal hypertension.
