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Disease portal hypertension
Phenotype C0023895|hepatic disease
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PubMedID- 20440575 Plausible explanations include primary hepatic diseases with acute portal hypertension and splenic congestion; a left-sided intra-abdominal infection or malignancy (e.g., diverticulitis or colon cancer) spreading to the liver via the portal circulation; or a single malignant (e.g., lymphoma), infectious (e.g., endocarditis) or infiltrative (e.g., sarcoidosis) process simultaneously affecting the liver and spleen (or another left-sided abdominal organ).
PubMedID- 20500840 Mean velocity (vmean), average portal blood flow volume (pbfv) and congestion index (ci) are important indicators in hepatic evaluation, mainly to detect alterations such as chronic hepatic diseases that lead to portal hypertension [1].
PubMedID- 26029592 Pulmonary syndromes in the setting of hepatic disease with portal hypertension include portopulmonary hypertension (poph), hepatopulmonary syndrome (hps) and hepatic hydrothorax.

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