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Disease schistosomiasis
Phenotype C0020541|portal hypertension
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PubMedID- 26078809 Whether schistosomiasis cirrhosis-induced portal hypertension (sph) model of rabbit or bile duct ligation- (bdl-) or carbon tetrachloride- (ccl4-) induced cirrhosis model of rat, both revealed reduced h2s level in serum and liver tissues by 20% to 80% [13, 20, 38, 41] and decreased cse protein expression by approximately 30% to 80% [13, 20, 38, 43].
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- 25345171 Objective: to evaluate the efficacy of splenectomy plus selective pericardial devascularization under endoscope in the treatment of advanced schistosomiasis patients with portal hypertension and hypersplenism so as to explore the minimally invasive and safer surgical treatment.
PubMedID- 26034376 We present a case of a patient with hypersplenism secondary to portal hypertension due to hepato-splenic schistosomiasis, which was accompanied by severe and refractory thrombocytopenia.
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- 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- 20363433 Objective: the aim of this study was to describe, for the first time, in a pilot study, the endoscopic aspects of the lesions in the small bowel of patients with portal hypertension due to schistosomiasis, using the pillcam sb, and to determine the usefulness of the method for the diagnosis of esophageal varices.
PubMedID- 21358814 China, splenectomy, either with or without portosystemic anastomosis, is a general surgical intervention for the treatment of portal hypertension due to hepatosplenic schistosomiasis, which would help to reduce the risk of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage, cure refractory ascites, recover work capacity, and remove hypersplenism [6].
PubMedID- 20332823 The portal hypertension with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis also plays an important role in the pathogenesis.
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- 21912706 The former is similar to schistosomiasis mansoni and leads to portal hypertension.
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- 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).

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