Portal Hypertension Due to Echinococcus Alveolaris: a Case Report

Overview

Journal Acta Medica (Hradec Kralove)

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2007 Jul 28

PMID 17654837

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Authors

Orhan Kursat Poyrazoglu

Huseyin Ataseven

Sevim Bektas

Ayse Aydin

Mehmet Yalniz

Selman Celebi

Ibrahim Halil Bahcecioglu

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Abstract

Infection of the liver with Echinococcus alveolaris (EA) contemplates with a fatal course though it is a rare condition. We present herein a patient with upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to portal hypertension caused by the involvement of the liver with EA.

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