title: [Long-term results of the Hassab operation in portal hypertension: 10 year's follow-up].
abstract: Seventy-three patients with portal hypertension who underwent Hassab operation before June 30, 1976 and were alive postoperatively were analysed. Among these patients, portal hypertension was caused by hepatic schistosomiasis in fifty-seven, and by portal cirrhosis in seventeen. According to Child's classification there were 14 in class A, 19 in class B, 30 in class C, and 10 were not classified. Thirty-two patients were subjected to therapeutic operation, forty-one to prophylactic operation. Seventy-one patients were followed-up (97.3%). The postoperative 5, 10 and 15 year cumulative survival rate were 85.5%, 75.8%, and 70.4% respectively. The survival rates in Child A, B patients were much higher than that in Child C patients (P less than 0.05). The postoperative bleeding rate was 11.3%, and the bleeding most often occurred in 1-9 year postoperatively. The esophageal varices disappeared in 64.3% of patients; ascites disappeared in 91.7% of patients; liver function improving or unchanging was seen in 93.6% of patients. There was no postoperative encephalopathy. Long term follow-up showed no difference in patient's survival rate between hepatic schistosomiasis and portal cirrhosis.
authors.affiliation: First Affiliated Hospital, Hunan Medical University, Changsha.
authors.forename: X S
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004947:Esophagus / Q000098:blood supply; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012554:Schistosomiasis japonica / Q000150:complications; D013270:Stomach / Q000098:blood supply; D015996:Survival Rate; D014680:Veins / Q000601:surgery