Ultrasound and Doppler examination capabilities in adult portal hypertension type definition
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https://doi.org/10.14739/2310-1237.2015.2.48623Keywords:
Portal Hypertension, Thrombosis, Doppler UltrasonographyAbstract
Early portal hypertension type diagnostics is an ultimate factor concerning kind and tactics of treatment.
Aim. To objectify ultrasound examination capabilities, portal hemodynamics were studied in 97 patients using impulse and color doppler.
Methods and results. It was ascertained that impulse and color doppler examination allows to visualize portal vein and its branches’ structural abnormalities, define subhepatic and intrahepatic types of portal hypertension, find thrombosis and characterize its stages. In cirrhosis patients with portal hypertension, homogenous doppler signal was received from the portal vessels lumen, while signs of intraluminar pathology were seen in the case of thrombosis of portal vein.
Conclusion. This means that ultrasound examination of portal vein and its branches with impulse and color doppler is informative, non invasive method, which helps to define stages of portal hypertension. Doppler ultrasonography doesn’t have negative effect of ionizing radiation and can be used for the repeated research in the dynamics of disease.
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