In advanced stages of cirrhosis, structural, and functional cardiac abnormalities occur. 在肝硬化的晚期,会发生结构上和功能上的心脏异常。 This cirrhosis associated cardiomyopathy (CCM) leads to impaired contractile responsiveness to stress...
Initial studies identified advanced age as an independent predictor of early mortality after TIPS, attributing it to age-related physiologic decline in hepatic functional reserve, which might not be picked up on routine laboratory tests[16...