Sonographic features of portal hypertension in Schistosomiasis Mansoni Aspectos ultra-sonográfícos da hipertensão portal na Esquistossomose Mansoni

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Rogerio Augusto Pinto-Silva, Wilson Luiz Abrantes, Carlos Maurício Figueiredo Antunes, Jose Roberto Lambertucci
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1994
• Subjects: Schistosomiasis; Sonography; Splenoportography; Portal Hypertension; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; The Portal
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651994000400008; https://doaj.org/article/7f7e03bbe29c4913ab0e0441deb192cd

The diagnostic value of real-time sonography in the study of portal hypertension was assessed in 66 patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni, all with Symmers's fibrosis and esophageal varices. Seventy-one individuals without schistosomiasis were selected as controls. The inner diame...