Portal hemodynamics in idiopathic portal hypertension (Banti's syndrome)

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, ...

POEMS syndrome and idiopathic portal hypertension: a possible association.

A 48-year old female patient was admitted to the emergency department with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Endoscopy showed large esophageal varices that were treated with band ligation. She had been treated with cyclophosphamide, melphalan, lenalidomide and corticosteroids for POEMS syndrome (polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy or edema, M protein, skin changes). She had no other ris...

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 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.