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encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine




Disease portal hypertension
Comorbidity C0036323|schistosomiasis
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PubMedID- 26267788 Conclusion/significance: this study shows that the decrease of flow pressure in portal circulation after splenectomy restores the capacity of hepatocyte synthesis, especially on the factor vii and protein c levels, and these findings suggest that portal hypertension in patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis influences liver functioning and the blood coagulation status.
PubMedID- 22348213 Moreover, brazilian pathologists have found giant follicular lymphomas in 1577 spleens removed from schistosomiasis mansoni patients with severe portal hypertension (andrade et al., 1971; de andrade et al., 1982).
PubMedID- 22567478 Significant morbidity is seen in those patients who develop complications such as end-stage renal diseases, chronic liver diseases with portal hypertension, and cancers associated with schistosomiasis [1–3].
PubMedID- 24255616 A recent study showed that the levels of thrombopoietin and reticulated platelets werenormal in schistosomiasis patients with portal hypertension and that the bone marrowproduces platelets normally(20).
PubMedID- 25345171 Conclusion: the operation of splenectomy plus selective pericardial devascularization under endoscope is effective, truly minimally invasive, and safe in the treatment of advanced schistosomiasis patients with portal hypertension and hypersplenism.
PubMedID- 20332823 The portal hypertension with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis also plays an important role in the pathogenesis.
PubMedID- 25746428 The collateral circulation (porto-caval anastomosis) produced by portal hypertension in cases with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis is essential to divert the schistosome and its ova from the portal to the pulmonary vasculature [7,8].
PubMedID- 21912706 The former is similar to schistosomiasis mansoni and leads to portal hypertension.
PubMedID- 22537571 Fishermen and peasants in most developing countries like ours work in environment favourable for contracting diseases like schistosomiasis which lead to portal hypertension.

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