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Idiopathic Non-cirrhotic Portal Hypertension and Close Entities: a Need for Clarifying Terminology
- Source :
- Current Hepatology Reports. 16:237-240
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017.
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Abstract
- Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension is described with a very heterogeneous terminology depending on the geographic origin of the patients and on the possible underlying causes of the disease. We aim here to review the current nomenclature and to the pathophysiological origins of this entity. In the past, a relevant number of definitions of this condition have been used in the literature, suggesting the presence of several distinct diseases. However, recent findings strongly suggest that there are some common denominators for this disease. Therefore, efforts should be made to develop a unified terminology encompassing the very essential features from clinical, histologic, imaging, laboratory and elastographic data. These findings suggest that the common localization of the disease is the portal and the sinusoidal compartment of the liver; therefore, a novel definition should be elaborated.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Hepatology
business.industry
Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
Disease
medicine.disease
Terminology
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
0302 clinical medicine
Virology
Geographic origin
Medicine
Portal hypertension
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
business
Intensive care medicine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21959595
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Hepatology Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........978e7a5ccacb289bc254041f0a950c4e