title: Postoperative deaths in children with portal hypertension.
abstract: 69 children suffering from portal hypertension have been analysed. 5 of these patients died following shunt surgery, 2 after palliative surgery and 2 died in a state of haemorrhagic shock before any treatment could be commenced. In all those patients who died following shunt surgery, thrombosis in some part of the portal vein was found at post mortem. This led to partial liver necrosis.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000601:surgery*; D008641:Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D008642:Mesenteric Veins; D011169:Portal Vein; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality