Following SVR, 140 patients had a hepatic venous pressure gradient reduction of 10% or more from baseline and 90 patients had a reduction of 20% or more, while 176 patients had persistent clinically ...

Just like the hypertension that people develop when their blood pressure increases, the increase of blood pressure in the main vein that supplies blood to the liver, called the portal vein, is also a ...

Portal hypertension is a severe, almost unavoidable complication of chronic liver diseases and is responsible for the main clinical consequences of cirrhosis. Measurement of the hepatic venous ...

THERE is much to be learned regarding the natural history of portal hypertension in cirrhosis. This is a natural consequence of the lack of a technic for direct measurement of portal pressure and the ...

VIENNA — Emricasan missed its primary endpoint of hepatic venous pressure gradient reduction in all patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-related compensated cirrhosis and severe portal ...

Amsterdam, the Netherlands — In a multivariate analysis of compensated cirrhotic patients infected with hepatitis C virus, spleen stiffness and model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score emerged ...

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands — Nonselective beta-blocker therapy improves gastrointestinal permeability and decreases intestinal bacterial translocation in patients with cirrhosis and esophageal varices ...

While liver stiffness measurement by vibration-controlled transient elastography with a 25 kPa threshold might detect CSPH, the overall low quality of the studies means that these results are not very ...

Just like the hypertension that people develop when their blood pressure increases, the increase of blood pressure in the main vein that supplies blood to the liver, called the portal vein, is also a ...