Review Article

The Interstitial Lymphatic Peritoneal Mesothelium Axis in Portal Hypertensive Ascites: When in Danger, Go Back to the Sea

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Acute-on-chronic splanchnic inflammation. Worsening of the portal hypertensive syndrome is associated with ascites. The ascitic fluid increases the lymphatic mesenteric flow as well as the lymphatic capillary stasis in the interstitium, which in turn would worsen the splanchnic inflammatory response. GII: Gastrointestinal interstitium; HI: Hepatic interstitium; MLN: Mesenteric lymph nodes; P: peritoneum.
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