Pulmonary hypertension complicating portal vein thrombosis.
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Pulmonary hypertension complicating portal vein thrombosis.
A 24-year-old Indian man died in 1977 after a long illness that began in 1961 (aged 8 years) with a severe gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Laparotomy showed large oesophageal varices that were oversewn. The spleen was enlarged but the liver looked normal. After a further gastrointestinal bleed in 1966 he underwent splenic venography, which showed a small, poorly opacifying portal vein and extensi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.34.2.281