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  • Title: [The portal circulatory characteristics of patients with esophageal and gastric varices in liver cirrhosis].
    Author: Kotenko OG.
    Journal: Klin Khir; 1998; (9-10):17-9. PubMed ID: 10050381.
    Abstract:
    It was established while examination of 166 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and the portal hypertension syndrome that the varicose esophageal veins are supplied with the blood from left and right gastric veins, and varicose veins of stomach--mainly from short and posterior gastric veins. The regularities of the portal hemodynamics change while the gastric veins varicosity occurrence were revealed: the hepatic portal perfusion lowering and the collateral hepato-fugal blood flow strengthening.
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