Blood Ammonia Level Correlates with Severity of Cirrhotic Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy.

Ferial El-Kalla Loai Mansour Abdelrahman KobtanAsmaa ElzeftawyLobna Abo AliSherief M Abd-ElsalamSahar ElyamaniMohamed YousefI AmerH MouradMohamed Elhendawy

Published in: Gastroenterology research and practice (2018)

Blood ammonia levels correlate with the presence, severity, and score of portal hypertensive gastropathy in cirrhosis suggesting a causal relationship and encouraging trials of ammonia-lowering treatments for the management of severe PHG with a tendency to bleed.

Keyphrases

blood pressure
anaerobic digestion
room temperature
early onset