Issue Special Issue 1/2018
Special Supplement: Portal Hypertension
Content (15 Articles)
The portal hypertension syndrome: etiology, classification, relevance, and animal models
Jaime Bosch, Yasuko Iwakiri
Biology of portal hypertension
Matthew McConnell, Yasuko Iwakiri
Gut–liver axis, cirrhosis and portal hypertension: the chicken and the egg
Juan P. Arab, Rosa M. Martin-Mateos, Vijay H. Shah
New concepts on the clinical course and stratification of compensated and decompensated cirrhosis
Gennaro D’Amico, Alberto Morabito, Mario D’Amico, Linda Pasta, Giuseppe Malizia, Paola Rebora, Maria Grazia Valsecchi
Invasive and non-invasive assessment of portal hypertension
Jonathan Chung-Fai Leung, Thomson Chi-Wang Loong, James Pang, Jeremy Lok Wei, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong
Impact of etiological treatment on prognosis
Chien-Wei Su, Ying-Ying Yang, Han-Chieh Lin
Pharmacologic prevention of variceal bleeding and rebleeding
Anna Baiges, Virginia Hernández-Gea, Jaime Bosch
Acute variceal bleeding: risk stratification and management (including TIPS)
Virginia Hernández-Gea, Claudia Berbel, Anna Baiges, Juan C. García-Pagán
Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration of varices: focusing on the portal hemodynamics and the recent techniques
Shozo Hirota, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yasukazu Kako, Haruyuki Takaki, Koichiro Yamakado
Novelties in the pathophysiology and management of portal hypertension: new treatments on the horizon
Seong Hee Kang, Moon Young Kim, Soon Koo Baik
Management of ascites and hepatorenal syndrome
Salvatore Piano, Marta Tonon, Paolo Angeli
Hepatic encephalopathy: a critical current review
Anna Hadjihambi, Natalia Arias, Mohammed Sheikh, Rajiv Jalan
Idiopathic portal hypertension and extrahepatic portal venous obstruction
Rajeev Khanna, Shiv Kumar Sarin
Budd–Chiari syndrome/hepatic venous outflow tract obstruction
Dominique-Charles Valla