Reviewer's report
Title:Assessment of intrahepatic blood flow by Doppler ultrasonography:
relationship between the hepatic vein, portal vein, hepatic artery and portal
pressure measured intraoperatively in patients with portal hypertension
Version: 3Date:17 March 2011
Reviewer: Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad
Reviewer's report:
Dear editor of BMC Gastroenterology journal;
I reviewed the revised version of the manuscript titled: "Assessment of
intrahepatic blood flow by Doppler ultrasonography: relationship between the
hepatic vein, portal vein, hepatic artery and portal pressure measured
intraoperatively in patients with portal". The manuscript is well revised; however,
some minor points remained including:
1. As it was previously mentioned, it is better to give some data about sample
size calculation in the "Methods" section of the article.
2. Although the authors answered that the two groups of study were matched
regarding some baseline characteristics, nothing is mentioned about the details
of matching process in the text of the revised manuscript.
3. No data on baseline characteristics of the control group are presented neither
in the text of the results nor in the Table 1.
Finally, I think it is necessary to consider these comments in this manuscript.
SM Fereshtehnejad MD. MPH.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:Assessment of intrahepatic blood flow by Doppler ultrasonography:
relationship between the hepatic vein, portal vein, hepatic artery and portal
pressure measured intraoperatively in patients with portal hypertension
Version: 3Date:17 March 2011
Reviewer: Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad
Reviewer's report:
Dear editor of BMC Gastroenterology journal;
I reviewed the revised version of the manuscript titled: "Assessment of
intrahepatic blood flow by Doppler ultrasonography: relationship between the
hepatic vein, portal vein, hepatic artery and portal pressure measured
intraoperatively in patients with portal". The manuscript is well revised; however,
some minor points remained including:
1. As it was previously mentioned, it is better to give some data about sample
size calculation in the "Methods" section of the article.
2. Although the authors answered that the two groups of study were matched
regarding some baseline characteristics, nothing is mentioned about the details
of matching process in the text of the revised manuscript.
3. No data on baseline characteristics of the control group are presented neither
in the text of the results nor in the Table 1.
Finally, I think it is necessary to consider these comments in this manuscript.
SM Fereshtehnejad MD. MPH.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Assessment of intrahepatic blood flow by Doppler ultrasonography:
relationship between the hepatic vein, portal vein, hepatic artery and portal
pressure measured intraoperatively in patients with portal hypertension
Version: 3Date:17 March 2011
Reviewer: Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad
Reviewer's report:
Dear editor of BMC Gastroenterology journal;
I reviewed the revised version of the manuscript titled: "Assessment of
intrahepatic blood flow by Doppler ultrasonography: relationship between the
hepatic vein, portal vein, hepatic artery and portal pressure measured
intraoperatively in patients with portal". The manuscript is well revised; however,
some minor points remained including:
1. As it was previously mentioned, it is better to give some data about sample
size calculation in the "Methods" section of the article.
2. Although the authors answered that the two groups of study were matched
regarding some baseline characteristics, nothing is mentioned about the details
of matching process in the text of the revised manuscript.
3. No data on baseline characteristics of the control group are presented neither
in the text of the results nor in the Table 1.
Finally, I think it is necessary to consider these comments in this manuscript.
SM Fereshtehnejad MD. MPH.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
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