Natural Course of Extrahepatic Nonmalignant Partial Portal Vein Thrombosis in Patients with Cirrhosis

Angelo Luca,Settimo Caruso,Mariapina Milazzo,Gianluca Marrone,Giuseppe Mamone,Francesca Crino,Luigi Maruzzelli,Roberto Miraglia,Gaetano Floridia,Giovanni Vizzini

Natural Course of Extrahepatic Nonmalignant Partial Portal Vein Thrombosis in Patients with Cirrhosis

2012

Angelo Luca
Settimo Caruso
Mariapina Milazzo
Gianluca Marrone
Giuseppe Mamone
Francesca Crino
Luigi Maruzzelli
Roberto Miraglia
Gaetano Floridia
Giovanni Vizzini

Nonmalignant partial portal vein thrombosis (PVT) spontaneously decreased in 19 (45%) of 42 cirrhotic patients, and progression and regression of PVT were not associated with clinical outcome, which appeared to be dependent on the severity of the cirrhosis.

Keywords:

Cirrhosis
General surgery
Portal vein thrombosis
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine
natural course
Gastroenterology
in patient
Internal medicine

Correction
Source
Cite
Save
Machine Reading By IdeaReader

References

120

Citations