Clinical progress of noninvasive assessment of portal vein pressure using doppler ultrasound / 中国现代医生

ABSTRACT

Portal hypertension (PHT) is a common clinical syndrome, the measurement methods of portal vein pressure mainly include two types: direct and indirect measurement methods. Direct methods including classic portal vein catheter technique, direct puncturing portal venous in the abdominal operation, ultrasound guided percutaneous tran-shepatic portal catheterization, etc. Indirect methods including color ultrasonic doppler observations in the portal hemo-dynamic changes, rectal vein-portal vein radionuclide imaging method, magnetic resonance angiography, spiral CT por-tal vein imaging (SCTP), etc. All kinds of invasive operations are not clinical routine, and ultrasound has been widely used in clinical, this article focuses on present situation and progress of ultrasonic noninvasive assessment of PHT.