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SUBMITTER: Xu G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6861775 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Gang G Li Fei F Mao Yilei Y
Annals of translational medicine 20191001 20
Portal hypertension is a serious symptom of chronic liver diseases, which can lead to many critical complications, such as the formation of varices related to upper digestive bleeding, ascites, infection, hepatic encephalopathy, renal failure, and even death. As a result, portal pressure monitoring has important prognostic and clinical implications. The hepatic venous pressure gradient measurement, a gold-standard method applied to monitor portal pressure, is invasive and only available in exper ...[more]