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Portal Hypertension

Research Data from U.V. Gentilucci and Colleagues Update Understanding of Portal Hypertension

Published in Cardiovascular Week, August 22nd, 2011

2011 AUG 22 -- A report, "Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension with large regenerative nodules: a diagnostic challenge," is newly published data in World Journal of Gastroenterology. According to the authors of recent research from Rome, Italy, "Non-cirrhotic portal hypertension is a poorly understood condition characterized by portal hypertension in the absence of conventional hepatic cirrhosis and described in association with blood coagulation disorders, myeloproliferative and immunological diseases and with exposure to toxic drugs. Very recently, precise classification criteria have been proposed in order to define four distinct subcategories."

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