Open AccessThe incidence of portal hypertension in children with choledochal cyst and the correlation of nitric oxide levels in the peripheral blood with portal pressure and liver histology
Author(s) -
Kailash Chand,
Veereshwar Bhatnagar,
Sandeep Agarwala,
M Srinivas,
Nibhriti Das,
Manoj Kumar Singh,
Raju Sharma
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of indian association of pediatric surgeons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1998-3891
pISSN - 0971-9261
DOI - 10.4103/0971-9261.159024
Subject(s) - medicine , portal hypertension , portal venous pressure , gastroenterology , liver function , blood pressure , surgery , liver function tests , cyst , complication , cirrhosis
Symptomatic portal hypertension (PHT) as a complication of the choledochal cyst (CDC) is well-known, but the actual incidence of PHT in CDC has not been studied. This study was undertaken to evaluate the incidence of PHT in patients of CDC and correlate portal pressure (PP) with liver histology and blood nitric oxide (NO) levels.