JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY, cilt.20, ss.1115-1120, 2005 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
Background: Cirrhotic patients have a hyperdynamic systemic circulation. They have insidious cardiac problems besides well-known complications. Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) relaxes vascular smooth muscle and has a portal hypotensive action. The relations between BNP levels and severity of disease, cardiac dysfunction and esophageal varices were studied in non-alcoholic cirrhotic patients.