Portal Hypertension

Abstract

THE term "portal hypertension" has only recently come into common usage in medical nomenclature. It is used to signify the hemodynamic alteration and the clinical picture that accompany various obstructive portal venopathies. McMichael1, 2 seems to have been the first to use the term in his description of the portal circulation in 1932, but it has been the work of Whipple and his associates at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York that has given the important stimulation for present interest in the treatment of this entity. Since 1945, with Whipple's3 classic presentation of the problem of portal hypertension as . . .