The portal vein in patients with cirrhosis is not an excessively inflammatory or hypercoagulable vascular bed, a prospective cohort study.

In contrast to published studies, we did not detect a clear proinflammatory or prothrombotic environment in the PV of cirrhotic patients. Many markers are lowest in the HV, indicating that the low levels of these markers in the HV, at least in part, reflect clearance of those markers in the liver.