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Octreotide inhibits the meal-induced increases in the portal venous pressure of cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension: A double-blind, placebo-controlled study

✍ Scribed by P. Aiden McCormick; Maria Rosa Biagini; Robert Dick; Lynda Greenslade; Jason Chin; Fabrizio Cardin; Donald Wagstaff; Neil McIntyre; Andrew K. Burroughs

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 745 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840160513

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✦ Synopsis

In recent years many studies have suggested that somatostatin may be useful in the treatment of patients with bleeding esophageal varices, although there is still some controversy on this point (1-5). The mechanisms through which somatostatin exerts its beneficial therapeutic effects in patients with portal hypertension are not clear. It decreases splanchnic blood flow in normal subjects and patients with cirrhosis, but the effects on

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