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Disease portal hypertension
Phenotype C0036323|schistosomiasis
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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- 22537571 Fishermen and peasants in most developing countries like ours work in environment favourable for contracting diseases like schistosomiasis which lead to portal hypertension.
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- 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- 25685450 Examples are colonic sub mucosal and pericolic fibrosis sparing motility, hepatosplenic schistosomiasis without portal hypertension, lower ureteric fibrosis without pelvicalyceal dilatation even when associated with mild to moderate reflux, and bladder fibrosis and calcification without significant urodynamic disturbances.
PubMedID- 25345171 [efficacy of splenectomy plus selective pericardial devascularization under endoscope in treatment of advanced schistosomiasis patients with portal hypertension and hypersplenism].
PubMedID- 21912706 The former is similar to schistosomiasis mansoni and leads to portal hypertension.
PubMedID- 23875049 Although bleeding events in hepatosplenic schistosomiasis are associated with portal hypertension [20], the deficient production of coagulation factors does not seem to aggravate the situation due to a balance between the reductions in pro- and anti-coagulation proteins.
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- 20332823 The portal hypertension with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis also plays an important role in the pathogenesis.
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].

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