Mohammed Elsayed Mahmoud Owid

Prevalence of portal hypertensive colopathy and its relevance to previous history of endoscopic esophageal variceal ligation or injection / دراسة معدل التغيرات التى تصيب القولون من جراء ارتفاع ضغط الدم فى الوريد البابى ودرجة تأثيرها بحقن دوالى المعدة والمرئ أو ربطها Mohammed Elsayed Mahmoud Owid ; Supervised Ebtissam Zakaria , Amal Fathy Radwan , Hussein Okasha - Cairo : Mohammed Elsayed Mahmoud Owid , 2012 - 181P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine

Portal hypertensive colopathy (PHC) is a gastrointestinal complication of portal hypertension . There is a large discrepancy between previous studies regarding prevalence of portal colopathy and its correlation with other factors . The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence and factors affecting colonic mucosal changes in patients with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension



Liver cirrhosis Portal hypertension Portal hypertensive colopathy