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Invasive Hemodynamic Characterization of the Portal-hypertensive Syndrome in Cirrhotic Rats
Published on: August 1, 2018
[Lesions of the biliary system in primary extrahepatic portal hypertension]
Abstract:
The authors describe extensive strictures of the hepaticocholedochus, ranging from 2.5 cm in length to total involvement of the duct, in 15 patients with primary extrahepatic portal hypertension. In 7 patients they were combined with cystic dilatation of the intrahepatic bile ducts. All patients were under 40 year of age, the ages of 10 of them ranged for 18 to 30. There were 9 males. ++Non-operative treatment of the disturbed bile drainage proved ineffective: remittent jaundice was encountered in all cases. The most frequent complications were cholangitis (6 cases), biliary cirrhosis of the liver (3) and the formation of spontaneous biliary fistulas (2).
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