RE: Re: ** ... help with GI's requested

[Guest guest]

Hi

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Portal Vein

Hypertension is very different from Deb’s problem. A few months after her liver transplant, her

doctors found a portal vein blood clot.

The clot stops the blood flow to her new liver, so her body in response

to that clot has made varices (tiny new blood veins) that help carry the blood

around the clot to her liver. Because

these varices are new and very weak, they often can’t stand the high pressure

of the blood moving through them, so they bleed. They can be fixed, but first the doctors have

to find them and that’s the hard part. HTH

Barb in Texas - Together in the Fight, Whatever it Takes!

Son Ken (33) UC 91 - PSC 99 - Tx 6/21 & 6/30/07 @ Baylor in Dallas