title: The place of Sugiura operation for portal hypertension and bleeding esophageal varices.
abstract: Fifty patients with portal hypertension and bleeding varices aged 10 months to 72 years were treated with a modified Sugiura, nonshunt operation (n = 26) or shunting procedures (n = 24) in accordance with the following predetermined therapeutic protocol: after resuscitation and diagnostic endoscopy, an emergency mesocaval shunt procedure was carried out if bleeding could not be stopped (group 1, n = 10). When bleeding could be stopped, the patients underwent full investigation and were then treated with either the distal splenorenal (DSR) shunt if the criteria of Warren were satisfied (group 2, n = 14) or with a modified Sugiura procedure in all other circumstances (group 3, n = 26). Patients were evaluated at 1.5 to 6 years. The rates for operative deaths, recurrent hemorrhage, encephalopathy, late deaths, and actuarial patient survival at 6 years were as follows: 20%, 30%, 30%, 20%, and 60% for group 1; 14.3%, 14.3%, 14.3%, 7.2%, and 79% for group 2; and 7.7%, 3.4%, 0%, 0%, and 93% for group 3, respectively. Within 3 months after the Sugiura operation, varices disappeared in 95% of patients and hypersplenism was relieved in all. Major complications were gastric and esophageal leaks in two patients (fatal in one) and temporary dysphagia in six. We conclude that the modified Sugiura nonshunt operation is probably the preferable treatment for variceal hemorrhage in the nonalcoholic patient because it is effective in arresting hemorrhage, has low operative mortality, low recurrence rate, no encephalopathy, and excellent survival rates.
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical; D011183:Postoperative Complications