title: Portal hypertension in a western Indian hospital.
abstract: The profile of Portal Hypertension (PHT) in India is different from the west. Despite a good liver our patients are prone to die due to massive haematemesis as they are located far away from the referral centres. Drugs have a limited role and endoscopic sclerotherapy has its own limitations in our setting. Surgery (proximal lieno-renal shunt) is a one time treatment, removes the injury prone huge spleen and cures hypersplenism. We report our experience of 36 patients managed by this procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Command Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra.
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Patnaik
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome