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Extra‐hepatic portal hypertension: the significance of variceal haemorrhage
Author(s) -
AOYAMA K.,
MYERS N. A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1982.tb01972.x
Subject(s) - medicine , portal hypertension , retrospective cohort study , prospective cohort study , general surgery , pediatrics , surgery , cirrhosis
. Sixty‐two children with extra‐hepatic portal hypertension (EHPH) were seen at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, during a 30‐year period. A partly retrospective and partly prospective study of these patients has been undertaken with particular reference to methods of establishing the diagnosis, evaluating the results of treatment, and attempting to predict the probability of recurrent bleeding.