Prognostic Risk Factors for Surgery in Patients with Cirrhotic Portal Hypertension

Abstract

This study excluded patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, such as regional portal hypertension, patients with no evidence of splenomegaly or hematocytopenia of one or multiple cell lines in the circulatory blood. Clinical data Of the 161 patients enrolled, 97 were male and 64 female (male: female=1.5:1). The ages of patients ranged from 10 to 64 years and averaged 42 years. One hundred twenty-two patients had liver cirrhosis secondary to HBV-hepatitis, 26 patients had liver cirrhosis secondary to HCV-hepatitis, 5 had biliary cirrhosis, 3 had alcoholic cirrhosis, 2