Assessment of the agreement between wedge hepatic vein pressure and portal vein pressure in cirrhotic patients

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
9237709	Digestive and Liver Disease	2005	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Wedged hepatic pressure measurement correlates well with direct portal pressure measurement and the agreement is sufficiently good to use this as a surrogate measurement.

Keywords

PVP PBC HVPG FHVP WHVP PPG portal pressure gradient Primary biliary cirrhosis Hepatic venous pressure gradient free hepatic venous pressure portal venous pressure HBV HCV Hepatitis C virus hepatitis B virus Portal hypertension

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Assessment of the agreement between wedge hepatic vein pressure and portal vein pressure in cirrhotic patients

Authors

U. Thalheimer, G. Leandro, D.N. Samonakis, C.K. Triantos, D. Patch, A.K. Burroughs,