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There have been major advances in drug therapy for portal hypertension since the discovery of nonselective beta‐blockers (NSBBs) by Lebrec and colleagues over 30 years ago.1 This review focuses on drug therapy for patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
1 paź 2024 · The six areas under discussion were: the relevance of clinically significant portal hypertension and the non-invasive methods used for its diagnosis and that of cirrhosis, the prevention of the first episode of decompensation and its recurrence, the treatment of acute variceal bleeding and other complications of portal hypertension, the ...
Treatment options to manage portal hypertension and its complications: Medication; Endoscopic therapy; Shunting procedures; Liver transplantation; Medication. If there are enlarged veins in your esophagus or stomach due to portal hypertension, physicians can treat it with medications to lower the pressure in these veins and prevent them from ...
These are the most widely evaluated and used drugs in the chronic treatment of portal hypertension (ie, in the prevention of variceal hemorrhage). Their mechanism of action is through both β-1 and β-2 blockade.
20 lut 2023 · This review will update the current and emerging pharmacological therapies for portal hypertension. Data have emerged on carvedilol in preventing hepatic decompensation and improving patient survival among patients with clinically significant portal hypertension.
11 lut 2023 · Portal hypertension is responsible of the main complications of cirrhosis, which carries a high mortality. Recent treatments have improved prognosis, but this is still far from ideal. This paper reviews new potential therapeutic targets unveiled by advances of key pathophysiologic processes.
