TIPS - Table 1

The causes of portal hypertension divided according to where they exert their effect.

Prehepatic causes:

Extrahepatic portal vein occlusion

Umbilical sepsis

Generalized sepsis

Malignancy

Myeloproliferative disorders

Coagulopathies

Noncirrhotic portal hypertension

Schistosomiasis

Noncirrhotic portal fibrosis

AVM

Intrahepatic causes:

Cirrhosis

Alcoholic hepatitis

Primary biliary cirrhosis

Viral hepatitis (B and C)

Autoimmune hepatitis

Metabolic (hemochromatosis)

Cryptogenic

Pre-cirrhotic parenchymal liver disease

Chronic active hepatitis

Alcoholic hepatitis (fatty liver)

Post Hepatic:

Budd-Chiari

Veno-occlusive disease

 

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