...Chon Kit Pun; Hui-Chun Huang; Ching-Chih Chang; Shao-Jung Hsu; Chiao-Lin Chuang; Yi-Hsiang Huang; Ming-Chih Hou; Fa-Yauh Lee Background: Portal hypertension affects hepatic, splanchnic and portosystemic collateral systems. Although alcohol is a well-known risk factor for liver cirrhosis, it also...

... vasodilatation. Angiogenesis also induces increased portal inflow and portosystemic collaterals. The collaterals may induce lethal complications such as gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage, but the therapeutic effect of vasoconstrictors is still suboptimal due to poor collateral vasoresponsivenss. Curcumin has...