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Abstract
Splenectomy is used as a treatment for bleeding O~.v. in portal hypertension patients with chronic li~er
disease. Portal vein thrombosis was observed to follow this operation in such patients. The portal system was studied in those patients pre
and post operatively in order to discover the incidence of
this complication. Clinical & laboratory investigations
were done for all the patients (30 patients) as well as
abdominal ultrasonography. Also superior mesenteric
arterial portography was done for 13 patients. The incidence of portal vein thrombosis was found to
be 35.8%. It is a high incidence. P.V.T is a complication of cirrhosis in splenectomized patients which
is difficult to be diagnosed clinically & it should .be
searched.for by sonography or angiography. It is related
probably to st a sis in portal system because the laboratory data didn’t showed significant difference in
patients with P.V.T.
It can agravate the condition of portal hypertension, thus it is important to search for it in such patients.