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

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

“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 ...

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 ...

He and collaborators, including UCDC senior scientist Rita Basu, M.D., Endowed Professor of Diabetes Science in the UAB Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, set out to assess splanchnic ...

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 ...