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Background and study aims: To evaluate the impact of intra- operatively measured portal vein pressure (PVP) on mortality in non-cirrhotic bilharzial patients undergoing splenectomy.Methods: The present study is a prospective study that was conducted in Egypt from April 2014 to April 2018. Adult patients with non-cirrhotic bilharziasis who were scheduled to undergo splenectomy were included. Studied cases were divided into a survival cohort and a non-survival cohort. The main objective was the correlation between the incidence of mortality and intraoperative PVP.Results: The present work comprised 130 cases with a mean age of 51.8 ± 6.4 years old. The in-hospital mortality rate was 22.3%, with sepsis as a major cause of death (37.9%). In term of the association between preoperative variables and mortality, survivors had statistically significant lower portal vein diameter (13.6 ± 1.8 versus 15.2 ± 1.8mm; p&lt;0.001) and higher portal vein velocity (14.2 ± 1.8 versus 10.4 ± 2.3 cm/sec; p&lt;0.001) than non- survivors. The survived patients had significantly lower PVP (13.9 ± 1.1 versus 17.7 ± 2.7; p &lt;0.001). A cut-off value of ≥14.5 mmHg, the PVP yielded a sensitivity of 86.2% and a specificity of 69% for the prediction of mortality. The association analysis showed a statistically significant association between mortality and postoperative liver function parameters.Conclusions: High intraoperative PVP is linked to early postoperative death in non-cirrhotic cases undergoing splenectomy. Our study showed that PVP &gt; 14.5mmHg was an independent predictor of death and showed good diagnostic performance for the detection of early postoperative mortality.

Portal venous pressure in non-cirrhotic bilharzial patients undergoing elective splenectomy, can it affect mortality? A prospective study