A 65 year old woman has primary biliary by Dr. Laurence Bailen @Tufts

Question 6 / 27: A 65 year old woman has primary biliary cirrhosis and is awaiting liver transplantation. She has

ascites and spider angiomata on physical examination and large esophageal varices on upper

endoscopy.

Which of the following would most likely be decreased?

A Resistance to blood flow through the liver

B Rate of blood flow through the splanchnic circulation

C Level of vasodilators in the blood

D Hepatic vein pressure gradient

E Peripheral vascular resistance

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Attribution: Laurence Scott Bailen, Tamsin Knox, Paul Abourjaily, Fredric D. Gordon,Marshall Kaplan,Andrew G. Plaut. PPY 222 Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology, Spring 2007. (Tufts University OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/47 (Accessed 3 May, 2014). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

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