Intermittent Idiopathic Portal Hypertension

Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension

Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension Sith Siramolpiwat1,2, Susana Seijo3* 1Chulabhorn International College of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand 2Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, 12120, Thailand 3CTO, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, ...

Idiopathic portal hypertension associated with cytotoxic drugs.

Four patients developed clinically important portal hypertension with histological features of idiopathic portal hypertension while they were receiving cytotoxic drugs for chronic myeloid leukaemia and Hodgkin's disease. Mild sclerosis of some small portal triads was the only abnormality seen at light microscopical examination in three of the four cases. In the remaining case light microscopica...

Idiopathic portal hypertension associated with autoimmune thyroiditis.

We report a case of idiopathic portal hypertension (IPH) in association with autoimmune thyroiditis occurring in a 39 year old woman. Ultrasonography revealed a normal liver echotexture. Spleno-portogram confirmed portal hypertension and liver biopsy showed features in keeping with IPH. She was also found to be biochemically hypothyroid with markedly elevated thyroid autoantibodies. These findi...

Idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension: current perspectives

The term idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension (INCPH) has been recently proposed to replace terms, such as hepatoportal sclerosis, idiopathic portal hypertension, incomplete septal cirrhosis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia, used to describe patients with a hepatic presinusoidal cause of portal hypertension of unknown etiology, characterized by features of portal hypertension (esoph...

Hashimoto's thyroiditis associated with idiopathic portal hypertension.