Emphasizing the diagnosis and treatment of hepatic micro-vascular diseases with integrative medicine
Vascular diseases had often occurred in the liver,while hepatic micro-vascular lesions played an im-portant role in pathogenesis of chronic liver diseases and portal hypertension.Recently,the proto-sinusoidal vas-cular disease was raised as a new entity,and improved the understanding of liver micro vascular diseases.Accord-ing to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine,"blood stasis in liver collaterals"was the main pathogenesis of liver micro vascular diseases,"activating blood and removing stasis"was important principle for the treatment which could regress the liver cirrhosis and improve the portal hypertension via regulation of hepatic micro vascula-ture.The current article introduced the progresses of the diagnosis and treatment of liver micro vascular diseases and the main contents of invited papers in the special issue.
hepatic micro vesselporto-sinusoidal vascular disordercirrhosisportal hypertensionblood stasis in liver collateralactivating blood and removing stasis