Comparable hemostatic capacity of blood taken from the portal vein compared with systemic blood in patients with cirrhosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Anesthesia Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Institut Investigació per a la Recerca Biomèdica Agustí Pi i Sunyé (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
• ² Hemostasis Department, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
• ³ Barcelona Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Health Care Provider of the European Reference Network on Rare Liver Disorders (ERN-RARE Liver), Centro de Investigación Biomédica Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁴ Surgical Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.