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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension
INCREASED RESISTANCE TO FLOW
• Presinusoidal: portal or splenic vein occlusion (thrombosis, tumor), schistosomiasis, congenital hepatic fibrosis, sarcoidosis
• Sinusoidal: cirrhosis (all causes), alcoholic hepatitis
• Postsinusoidal: veno-occlusive disease, Budd-Chiari syndrome, constrictive pericarditis
INCREASED PORTAL BLOOD FLOW
• Splenomegaly not due to liver disease
• Arterioportal fistula
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