Blood Ammonia Level Correlates with Severity of Cirrhotic Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy

BACKGROUND: Portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) is a common anomaly with potential for bleeding found in portal hypertension. Blood ammonia levels correlate well with liver disease severity and existence of portosystemic shunts. Increased ammonia results in vasodilation and hepatic stellate cell a...

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Autores principales: El-Kalla, Ferial, Mansour, Loai, Kobtan, Abdelrahman, Elzeftawy, Asmaa, Abo Ali, Lobna, Abd-Elsalam, Sherief, Elyamani, Sahar, Yousef, Mohamed, Amer, I., Mourad, H., Elhendawy, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6087568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9067583

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6087568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30151003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9067583

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