Portal hypertension V : proceedings of the Fifth Baveno International Consensus Workshop /

• Συλλογικό Έργο: Baveno International Consensus Workshop, Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: De Franchis, Roberto
• Μορφή: Πρακτικό Συνεδρίου Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley & Sons, 2011.
• Έκδοση: 5th ed.
• Θέματα: Portal hypertension > Congresses.; Hypertension, Portal.; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.; Liver Diseases.; Medicine.; MEDICAL > Hepatology.; Portal hypertension.; Congresses.; Electronic books.; Conference papers and proceedings.

Every five years, hepatologists with an interest in portal hypertension (high blood pressure in the portal vein), gather in Baveno, Italy, for the Baveno International Consensus Workshop on Portal Hypertension, attending workshops and examining the latest in clinical data and research on this condit...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Hepatic venous pressure gradient, biopsy or both? / Guadalupe Garcia Tsao
• Elastography in the non-invasive evaluation of the extent of fibrosis and in the diagnosis of portal hypertension / Laurent Castéra
• Clinical epidemiological and statistical challenges in defining recording and analysing endpoints / Thorkild I.A. Sørensen and Per Kragh Andersen
• Pre-primary and primary prophylaxis : what has been done? / Carlo Merkel, Manuela Merli, and Alessandra Dell'Era
• Pre-primary and primary prophylaxis : what should we do next? / Roberto J Groszmann, Cristina Ripoll, and Julio Vorobioff
• Failure to Control Bleeding and Failure to control rebleeding / Andrew K Burroughs [and others]
• Should prognostic variables be used to direct patient management in the acute setting? / Mario D'Amico and Juan Carlos García-Pagán
• Treatment of acute bleeding / Loren Laine [and others]
• Preventing rebleeding in 2010 / Norman Grace [and others]
• Stages classification of cirrhosis : where do we stand? / Gennaro D'Amico
• Budd-Chiari syndrome : hepatic venous outflow tract obstruction / Dominique-Charles Valla
• Extrahepatic portal vein obstruction (EHPVO) / Shiv Kumar Sarin, Ashish Kumar, and Yogesh Kumar Chawla
• The coagulopathy of chronic liver disease : is the long and widely held belief being dispelled? / Armando Tripodi
• Anticoagulation therapy in cirrhosis with portal vein thrombosis / Marco Senzolo
• Variceal bleeding, infections, and the hepatorenal syndrome / Richard Moreau
• Portal hypertension in children : current practice and the need for evidence / Simon C. Ling and Benjamin L. Shneider
• Statins in portal hypertension / Juan G. Abraldes, Vincenzo La Mura, and Jaime Bosch
• A look into the future : new treatments on the horizon : antiviral therapy / Diego Rincón [and others]
• Antifibrotic drugs / Massimo Pinzani
• New drugs in the treatment of portal hypertension / María Gabriela Delgado, Susana Seijo, and Jaime Bosch.