Open AccessClinical Management of Chronic Portal/Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis: The Surgeon's Point of View
Author(s) -
Tim R. Glowka,
Jörg C. Kalff,
Nico Schäfer
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
visceral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2297-475X
pISSN - 2297-4725
DOI - 10.1159/000369575
Subject(s) - medicine , portal hypertension , liver transplantation , cirrhosis , transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt , portosystemic shunt , esophageal varices , portal vein thrombosis , surgery , gastric varices , liver function , transplantation
Bleeding from esophageal varices is a life-threatening complication of chronic portal hypertension (PH), occuring in 15% of patients with a mortality rate between 20 and 35%.
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