Portal Hypertension News

Hepatic fibrosis and portal hypertension were accurately identified through real-time tissue elastography among patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a recent study.

Recurrent peptic ulcer bleeding was more common in patients with cirrhosis than among controls in a recent study.

Treatment with anticoagulants in patients with cirrhosis and portal vein thrombosis led to partial or complete recanalization in the majority of participants in a recent study.

Oral anticoagulation did not increase the risk for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with portal vein thrombosis treated with endoscopic variceal ligation, according to new data.

Liver stiffness was as effective as hepatic venous pressure gradient in predicting portal hypertension and clinical decompensation in patients with chronic liver disease, according to a study.

Large spontaneous portosystemic shunts are associated with moderate and severe portopulmonary hypertension, according to a study. There is also an association with a lack of response to treatment.

A newly formed equation that can predict survival in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension was more effective than the equation traditionally used by the National Institutes of Health to predict survival, study results suggested.

A 55-year-old man presented with a scalp laceration and T3 and T12 compression fractures after falling down an escalator. He had a prolonged stay complicated by confusion, pain and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.