eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | portal hypertension |
| Symptom | |varices |
| Sentences | 58 |
| PubMedID- 25883057 | Objectives: data regarding agreement on endoscopic features of oesophageal varices in children with portal hypertension (ph) are scant. |
| PubMedID- 21912056 | In this study we have validated the use of the platelet count/spleen diameter ratio for the noninvasive diagnosis of esophageal varices in patients with portal hypertension caused by schistosoma infection. |
| PubMedID- 25008262 | An eventual diagnosis was made of portal hypertension with large varices, secondary to cryptogenic cirrhosis of the liver, and the patient was managed with adequate analgesia and bed rest for splenic infarct-related abdominal pain and beta blocker therapy as primary prophylaxis for upper gastrointestinal bleeds. |
| PubMedID- 22379346 | Jejunal varices are associated with portal hypertension, which may be due to cirrhosis or extrahepatic portal venous obstruction, chronic alcoholism, portal vein thrombosis, or intrahepatic arterioportal fistulas (3). |
| PubMedID- 20698946 | varices are usually associated with portal hypertension with the most common locations being the rectosigmoid and ceacum. |
| PubMedID- 20182854 | Percutaneous transhepatic sclerotherapy for bleeding ileal varices associated with portal hypertension and previous abdominal surgery. |
| PubMedID- 25793111 | Gastric varices are a complication of portal hypertension (1,2), but are less common than esophageal varices (1). |
| PubMedID- 22187658 | The first two articles, “clinicopathological features and treatment of ectopic varices with portal hypertension” and “application of endoscopy in improving survival of cirrhotic patients with acute variceal hemorrhage” discuss the management of variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients. |
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