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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Autores principales: Vassiliadis, Themistoklis G, Gatopoulou, Anthia, Patsiaoura, Kaliopi, Giouleme, Olga, Soufleris, Konstantinos, Boubonaris, Alexandros, Katsinelos, Panagiotis, Eugenidis, Nikolaos
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
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
author_sort Vassiliadis, Themistoklis G
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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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