[Life prognosis in patients with prehepatic portal hypertension treated with portosystemic shunts].
The authors present the results of the long-term follow up of nine patients with prehepatic portal hypertension treated by a portosystemic anastomosis. The evaluation was made 5-21 years after operation, according to criteria focused on the therapeutic effect of the anastomosis and its possible pathophysiological sequelae. In the authors' opinion the anastomosis is the operation of choice suited for patients lacking a tendency of normalization of the portal circulation and with dangerous manifestations of portal overpressure. The indication is restricted to early age of the patients (for technical reasons). Conversely the patient should not attain adult age without unresolved hypertension. For correct timing of the operation knowledge of the development of the disease is essential. Primarily infact livers do not undergo pathological changes even after years of hypertension nor several years after an anastomosis. This is consistent with the fact that these patients lack clinical manifestations of portosystemic encephalopathy. Investigations of the course of flow curves during semiquantitative evaluation of hepatobiliary sequential scintigraphy supported the previous view that establishment of the anastomosis and elimination of portal overpressure improves hepatic perfusion. Hepatobiliary sequential scintigraphy not previously used in this indication may be of value in the follow up of the disease and evidence of the anastomosis. This preliminary conclusion is being tested in a prospective study.
I. chirurgická klinika FN, Olomouc.
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D000328:Adult; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical; D011788:Quality of Life
Zivotní vyhlídky nemocných s prehepatickou portální hypertenzí, lécených portosystemickou spojkou.