Wael E. A. Saad: Portal hypertension. Imaging, diagnosis, and endovascular management. Third edition

Neonatal Hypertension: Etiology, Diagnosis and Management

Neonatal hypertension is a rare and complex condition, with an incidence rate of 0.2% to 3%. It can be resulted by several risk factors such as renal diseases, use of several drugs, neurologic, cardiac, respiratory and endocrine causes. Gestational age, birth weight and conceptual age are the most important risk factors. Renal diseases can be found in about 25% to 50% of hypertension at neonata...

Management of portal hypertension.

Management of portal hypertension.

Complications of portal hypertension are the leading cause of death in patients with liver cirrhosis. Rational medical and endoscopic therapy is guided by a thorough understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of ascites, variceal formation and bleeding, hepatorenal syndrome, and hepatic encephalopathy. The pathophysiology of each clinical entity is reviewed followed by an evidence-based di...

Management of portal hypertension.

Treatment of portal hypertension is evolving based on randomised controlled trials. In acute variceal bleeding, prophylactic antibiotics are mandatory, reducing mortality as well as preventing infections. Terlipressin or somatostatin combined with endoscopic ligation or sclerotherapy is the best strategy for control of bleeding but there is no added effect of vasoactive drugs on mortality. Non-...

Third Edition on the Third Edition

The Third Edition of the MATLAB Primer is based on version 4.004.1 of MATLAB. While this edition reeects an extensive general revision of the Second Edition, most sig-niicant is the new information to help one begin to use the major new features of version 4.004.1, the sparse matrix and enhanced graphics capabilities. The plain T E X source and corresponding PostScript le of the latest printing...