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Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report
Idiopathic portal hypertension belongs to the group of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, its etiology is still unknown but its prognosis is excellent. We report a case of 45 year old female with inactive hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier status and persistently elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), prese...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18842148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-229 |
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author | Vassiliadis, Themistoklis G Gatopoulou, Anthia Patsiaoura, Kaliopi Giouleme, Olga Soufleris, Konstantinos Boubonaris, Alexandros Katsinelos, Panagiotis Eugenidis, Nikolaos |
author_facet | Vassiliadis, Themistoklis G Gatopoulou, Anthia Patsiaoura, Kaliopi Giouleme, Olga Soufleris, Konstantinos Boubonaris, Alexandros Katsinelos, Panagiotis Eugenidis, Nikolaos |
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description | Idiopathic portal hypertension belongs to the group of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, its etiology is still unknown but its prognosis is excellent. We report a case of 45 year old female with inactive hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier status and persistently elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), presented with features of portal hypertension and without evidence of cirrhosis or fibrosis on liver biopsy. |
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spelling | pubmed-25720432008-10-24 Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report Vassiliadis, Themistoklis G Gatopoulou, Anthia Patsiaoura, Kaliopi Giouleme, Olga Soufleris, Konstantinos Boubonaris, Alexandros Katsinelos, Panagiotis Eugenidis, Nikolaos Cases J Case Report Idiopathic portal hypertension belongs to the group of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, its etiology is still unknown but its prognosis is excellent. We report a case of 45 year old female with inactive hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier status and persistently elevated alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), presented with features of portal hypertension and without evidence of cirrhosis or fibrosis on liver biopsy. BioMed Central 2008-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2572043/ /pubmed/18842148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-229 Text en Copyright © 2008 Vassiliadis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Vassiliadis, Themistoklis G Gatopoulou, Anthia Patsiaoura, Kaliopi Giouleme, Olga Soufleris, Konstantinos Boubonaris, Alexandros Katsinelos, Panagiotis Eugenidis, Nikolaos Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report |
title | Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report |
title_full | Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report |
title_fullStr | Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report |
title_short | Idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" HBV carrier: a case report |
title_sort | idiopathic portal hypertension in an "inactive" hbv carrier: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2572043/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18842148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-229 |
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