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EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement with a simple novel device: a human pilot study

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Portal hypertension is a serious adverse event of liver cirrhosis. Recently, we developed a simple novel technique for EUS-guided portal pressure gradient (PPG) measurement (PPGM). Our animal studies showed excellent correlation between EUS-PPGM and interventional radiology-acqu...

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Autores principales: Samarasena, Jason B., Huang, Jason Y., Tsujino, Takeshi, Thieu, Daniel, Yu, Allen, Hu, Ke-Qin, Lee, John, Chang, Kenneth J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6205538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30402586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vgie.2018.07.013