Portal Hypertension: Clinical and Physiological Aspects

by Jean-Pierre Benhamou and Kunio Okuda

Portal hypertension is the abnormal pathophysiologic state that develops in liver cirrhosis and certain other disorders with characteristic clinical and hemodynamic features. There has been great progress in our under standing and management of portal hypertension, particularly in the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The so-called Banti's syndrome, a disorder whose existence had long been questioned, is now a well-defined portal hypertensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431700544
• ISBN13: 9784431700548
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 569 Pages