The sonogram showed a cystic lesion (arrow) between the right portal vein and the right hepatic vein (Fig. 1). A subsequent computerized tomography scan of the abdomen with three-dimensional ...

per injection. Through a cutdown in the right antecubital vein a No. 7 or No. 8 Lehman catheter was introduced and passed into the hepatic wedge position. A No. 18 Cournand needle or a short ...

HVPG was determined before and after treatment by insertion of a catheter into the main right hepatic vein to measure wedged and free hepatic vein pressures. As Bosch comments, “it is important ...