PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | venous insufficiency |
| Phenotype | C0022116|ischemia |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 20930990 | When massive dilatation occurs, ischemia is presumably due to venous insufficiency: 14 mmhg of pressure is sufficient to impair venous outflow and intralumenal quantity of more than 3 l of fluid can distend the stomach to that pressure, although chronic distension of more than 15 l has been described in eating disorders (polyphagia, bulimia). |
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