Portal Hypertension

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increase in blood pressure in the veins of the portal system caused by obstruction in the liver (often associated with alcoholic cirrhosis), causing enlargement of the spleen and collateral veins

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Portal Hypertensions
possessive: Portal Hypertension's
pluralpossessive: Portal Hypertensions'

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