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. 2004 May;20(3):254-63.
doi: 10.1097/00001574-200405000-00010.

Portal hypertension

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao  1
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Portal hypertension

Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao. Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2004 May.

Abstract

Purpose of review: This review discusses the advances in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of the complications of portal hypertension that have occurred in the past year.

Recent findings: The specific topics reviewed are the pathophysiology of portal hypertension (including recent findings regarding intrahepatic vascular resistance and splanchnic vasodilatation) and experimental methods used to act on the mechanisms that lead to portal hypertension, as well as recent advances in the diagnosis and management of the complications of portal hypertension.

Summary: The specific complications discussed in this review are varices and variceal bleeding (primary prophylaxis, treatment of the acute episode, and secondary prophylaxis), portal hypertensive gastropathy, ascites, hepatorenal syndrome, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, the cardiopulmonary complications of portal hypertension (hepatopulmonary syndrome, portopulmonary hypertension, cardiac dysfunction), and hepatic encephalopathy.

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