Prior to undergoing living-donor liver transplantation, cirrhotic recipients generally develop peculiar systemic and splanchnic hemodynamics due to portal hypertension. Previously, a research ...

“Recently, it has been shown that the splanchnic, or abdominal, circulation is responsible for maintaining normal venous pressure in the systemic and pulmonary vasculature via stressed blood ...

Pathophysiology of hepatorenal syndrome-acute kidney injury. Cirrhosis leads to an elevation in intrahepatic vascular resistance. Splanchnic vasodilation increases the production of vasodilators ...

Splanchnic vein thromboses (SVTs) can be secondary to various conditions, but the significant association between SVTs and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) warrants further research, a review ...

References [1] Venous return and mean systemic filling pressure: physiology and clinical applications. Critical Care (2022). [2] Clinical validation of a computerized algorithm to determine mean ...

Ananda Basu, M.D. A new study led by Ananda Basu, M.D., used novel non-radioactive, stable glucagon tracers for the first time to characterize glucagon metabolism in humans with and without Type 1 ...