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1. What should I do to prepare for surgery?

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   A provider offers advice on how to prepare for AV fistula surgery and provides tips on how to protect a patient's veins....

2. Definition & Facts of Hemorrhoids

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   of hemorrhoids? What are hemorrhoids? Hemorrhoids, also called piles, are swollen and inflamed veins around your anus or in your lower rectum. The two types...

3. Treatment for Cirrhosis

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   high blood pressure in the portal vein. Treatments for the complications of portal hypertension include Enlarged veins in your esophagus or stomach...

4. Definition & Facts for Cirrhosis

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   which causes high blood pressure in the portal vein. Portal hypertension and its treatments may lead to other complications, including enlarged veins...

5. Liver Biopsy

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   liver biopsy, a doctor inserts a needle into a vein in your neck called the jugular vein. The doctor passes the needle through your veins to your liver...

6. Definition & Facts of Primary Biliary Cholangitis (Primary Biliary Cirrhosis)

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   edema buildup of fluid in your abdomen, called ascites enlarged veins—called varices—in your esophagus, stomach, or intestines, which can lead...

7. Definition & Facts for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

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   called ascites enlarged veins—called varices—in the esophagus, stomach, or intestines, which can lead to gastrointestinal bleeding if the veins burst...

8. Symptoms & Causes of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

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   gastrointestinal bleeding caused when enlarged veins—called varices—burst in the esophagus, stomach, or intestines other symptoms of cirrhosis, such as edema...

9. Hemorrhoids

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   Definition & Facts, Hemorrhoids, also called piles, are swollen and inflamed veins around your anus or in your lower rectum. External hemorrhoids...

10. Clinical Trials | Kidney Disease Section

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    and a risk of forming blood clots in veins. - Kidney biopsies that show that antibodies have been deposited along the glomeruli suggest that specialized cells...