“…Most of the existing animal models of subdiaphragmatic congestion do not meet the criteria to be a clinically relevant animal model of isolated congestion (Table 2). First, the exact technique to induce congestion [44,45,47,48,55,56], the anatomical location of where the constriction is applied [44,46,49,52,53,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68], and the degree of constriction were not always properly described [46,47,50,52,54,56,65,66,68,69]. Second, it was not always clear whether venous congestion was actually induced, since hemodynamic or echocardiographic measurements were not performed in these studies [46-52, 54-56, 58, 59, 69].…”