EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement with a simple novel device: a human pilot study

Background and Aims: Portal hypertension is a serious adverse event of liver cirrhosis. Recently, we developed a simple novel technique for EUS-guided portal pressure gradient (PPG) measurement (PPGM). Our animal studies showed excellent correlation between EUS-PPGM and interventional radiology-acqu...

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Main Authors: Jason B. Samarasena, MD, Jason Y. Huang, FRACP, Takeshi Tsujino, MD, PhD, Daniel Thieu, BSc, Allen Yu, BSc, Ke-Qin Hu, MD, John Lee, MD, Kenneth J. Chang, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-11-01
Series:VideoGIE
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468448118301395