Abstract BACKGROUND The hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) is an invasive, but important diagnostic and prognostic marker in cirrhosis with portal hypertension (PHT). During cirrhosis, remodelling of fibrotic tissue by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) is a permanent process generating small fragments of degraded extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins known as neoepitopes, which are then released into the […]
Novel serological neo-epitope markers of extracellular matrix proteins for the detection of portal hypertension.
November 1, 2013
Aliment Pharmacol Ther