Surgical treatmentof portal hypertension
The Editorial Board of “MIA Medical Bulletin” decided to publish the series of articles about important problems of modern surgery, which were included in the Research and Development Plan of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia. This is the first publication that deals with surgical treatment of portal hypertension. In next issues we will focus on open surgery for treatment of portal hypertension, minimal invasive surgery methods using in treatment of this pathology (endoscopic and endovascular surgeries). The final publication will be the article about cell technologies in treatment of this pathology including use of a mesenchymal stem cells-based medicinal product.