Abstract
This article reviews the current literature in order to evaluate clinical and experimental data on the portal hypertensive gastropathy. In the last two decades, portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) has emerged as a new nosological entity that can be included among the complications of liver cirrhosis. Pathogenesis of PHG is not clearly defined, but there is very close relationship between portal hypertension and development of PHG. PHG is a potential source of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. In this reason PHG attract attention of investigators.
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