Thrombotic risk factors in patients with liver cirrhosis: correlation with MELD scoring system and portal vein thrombosis development

Zocco, Maria Assunta (ORCID:0000-0002-0814-9542)
Di Stasio, Enrico (ORCID:0000-0003-1047-4261)
De Cristofaro, Raimondo (ORCID:0000-0002-8066-8849)
Novi, Marialuisa
Ainora, Maria Elena
Ponziani, Francesca Romana (ORCID:0000-0002-5924-6238)
Riccardi, Laura
Lancellotti, Stefano
Santoliquido, Angelo (ORCID:0000-0003-1539-4017)
Flore, Roberto Antonio (ORCID:0000-0003-1659-1338)
Pompili, Maurizio (ORCID:0000-0001-6699-7980)
Rapaccini, Gian Ludovico (ORCID:0000-0002-6467-857X)
Tondi, Paolo (ORCID:0000-0003-1654-2448)
Gasbarrini, Giovanni Battista
Landolfi, Raffaele (ORCID:0000-0002-7913-8576)
Gasbarrini, Antonio (ORCID:0000-0002-7278-4823)

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Publication date

January 2009

DOI

10.1016/j.jhep.2009.03.013

Publisher

Elsevier BV

ISSN

0168-8278

Citation count (estimate)

192

Abstract

Prognostic scores currently used in cirrhotic patients do not include thrombotic risk factors (TRFs). Predicting factors of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) development are still unknown. We wanted to describe TRFs as a function of liver disease severity using the MELD score and assess the role of local and systemic TRFs as predictors of PVT development in cirrhotic patients