Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2005
Abstract
Therapy of portal hypertension was due to progress in many parts of medicine, changed in the last years. Clinically significant complications of portal hypertension are: bleeding from varices, ascites, hepatorenal syndrome.
Therapy with betablockers, terlipressin, somatostatin and aquaretics is mentioned as endoscopic therapy and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS).