Overlooked subclinical portal hypertension in non-cirrhotic NAFLD: is it real and how to measure it?

G Baffy, J Bosch - Journal of hepatology, 2022 - Elsevier
Clinical and experimental advances related to the detection, magnitude and pathobiology of
subclinical portal hypertension in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), primarily …

Hepatic venous pressure gradient

T Bochnakova - Clinical Liver Disease, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Portal hypertension is defined as high blood pressure in the splanchnic venous system and
is most commonly seen in the setting of long-standing liver disease. The consequences of …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatectomy-induced alterations in hepatic perfusion and function-toward multi-scale computational modeling for a better prediction of post-hepatectomy liver …

B Christ, M Collatz, U Dahmen, KH Herrmann… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Liver resection causes marked perfusion alterations in the liver remnant both on the organ
scale (vascular anatomy) and on the microscale (sinusoidal blood flow on tissue level) …

Origins of portal hypertension in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

G Baffy - Digestive diseases and sciences, 2018 - Springer
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) advanced to cirrhosis is often complicated by
clinically significant portal hypertension, which is primarily caused by increased intrahepatic …

[HTML][HTML] Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and portal hypertension

M Ryou, N Stylopoulos, G Baffy - Exploration of medicine, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a substantial and growing problem worldwide
and has become the second most common indication for liver transplantation as it may …

[HTML][HTML] Confounding factors of non-invasive tests for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

JW Wai, C Fu, VWS Wong - Journal of Gastroenterology, 2020 - Springer
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects at least 25% of the general adult population
worldwide. Because only a fraction of the patients would develop liver-related complications …

Noninvasive imaging assessment of portal hypertension

P Kennedy, O Bane, SJ Hectors, A Fischman… - Abdominal …, 2020 - Springer
Portal hypertension (PH) is a spectrum of complications of chronic liver disease (CLD) and
cirrhosis, with manifestations including ascites, gastroesophageal varices, splenomegaly …

Portal vein thrombosis associated with high 14-day and 6-week rebleeding in patients after oesophageal variceal band ligation: a retrospective, multicentre, nested …

Z Gao, J Zhao, X Liu, S Li, M Wang, Y Gao - Hepatology International, 2021 - Springer
Background and aims The association between prognosis of variceal bleeding and portal
vein thrombosis (PVT) is unclear. In this multicentre study, we determined the effect of PVT …

[HTML][HTML] Management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in the Middle East

FM Sanai, F Abaalkhail, F Hasan… - World journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the Middle East is increasing
in parallel to an increase in the prevalence of associated risk factors such as obesity …

[HTML][HTML] Liver stiffness and serum markers for excluding high-risk varices in patients who do not meet Baveno VI criteria

H Zhou, J Long, H Hu, CY Tian… - World Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The Baveno VI criteria for predicting esophageal varices, ie., liver stiffness
measurement (LSM)< 20 kPa and platelet (PLT) count> 150× 10 9/L, identify patients who …