Postprandial splanchnic hemodynamic response in patients with cirrhosis of the liver: evaluation with "triple-vessel" duplex US. - Concepedia

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Postprandial splanchnic hemodynamic response in patients with cirrhosis of the liver: evaluation with "triple-vessel" duplex US.

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1996

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T Iwao, Atsushi Toyonaga, K. Oho, Takahiro Sakai, Chizuru Tayama, H Masumoto, Masahiro Sato, K Nakahara, K Tanikawa

Abstract

Postprandial portal hyperemia is mainly due to mesenteric arterial vasodilation; reduced postprandial portal hyperemia in patients with cirrhosis is attributable to portocollateral runoff.