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1 online resource (270 pages) |
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Portal Hypertension Iii; Contributors; Preface; Lecture What Have We Accomplished?; Session 1 Definition of Key Events: Let's Try Again; Baveno Iii Consensus Statements; Lecture Stellate Cells: Do They Have a Role in Portal Hypertension?; Session 2 Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension: How and When; Baveno Iii Consensus Statements; Session 3A Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy; Session 3B Gastric Varices; Baveno Iii Consensus Statements; Session 4 Preprimary Prophylaxis. Can (and Should) We Prevent the Formation and Growth of Varices; Baveno Iii Consensus Statements |
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Lecture Antifibrotic Therapy: Future Cure for Portal Hypertension?Session 5 Primary Prophylaxis; Baveno Iii Consensus Statements; Session 6 Treatment of the Acute Bleeding Episode; Baveno Iii Consensus Statements; Session 7 Prevention of Recurrent Variceal Haemorrhage (Secondary Prophylaxis); Baveno Iii Consensus Statements; Session 8 Complications in the Medical Treatment of Portal Hypertension; Baveno Iii Consensus Statements; Lecture Quality of Randomized Clinical Trials in Portal Hypertension and Other Fields of Hepatology |
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Session 9 Methodology of Future Trials: Prognostic Stratification, Health-Related Quality of Life and Health EconomicsBaveno Iii Consensus Statements; Index |
| Summary |
Proceedings of the Third Baveno International Consensus Workshop on Definitions, Methodology and Therapeutic Strategies. The participants attempted to develop consensus definitions of key events in portal hypertension and variceal bleeding, diagnostic and therapeutic issues, and the complications of therapies for portal hypertension, as well as producing updated guidelines. The lectures summarized the consensus reached in the earlier workshops, addressed two important new areas of research, and analyzed the quality of trials in portal hypertension and other fields of hepatology |
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Print version record |
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Portal hypertension.
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Medicine.
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Hypertension, Portal
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Medicine
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medicines (material)
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medicine (discipline)
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Medicine
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Portal hypertension
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780470759882 |
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0470759887 |
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