Hipertensión Portal en Niños

Background: Prehepatic portal hypertension in children can be asymptomatic for many years. Once diagnosed, the therapeutic measures (pharmacologic, endoscopic, and surgical) are conditioned by the specific characteristics of each patient. In Mexico, there are no recorded data on the incidence of the disease and patient characteristics. Aims: To determine the main clinical, radiologic, and endoscopic characteristics upon diagnosis of these patients at the Instituto Nacional de Pediatría within the time frame of January 2001 and December 2011. Methods: A cross-sectional, retrolective, descriptive, and observational study was conducted in which all the medical records of the patients with portal hypertension diagnosis were reviewed. Results: There was a greater prevalence of prehepatic etiology (32/52) (61.5%) in the portal hypertension cases reviewed. Males (62.5%) predominated and 11 of the 32 patients were under 4 years of age. The primary reason for medical consultation was upper digestive tract bleeding with anemia (71.9%) and the main pathology was cavernomatous degeneration of the portal vein ଝ Please cite this article as:

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Hipertensión Portal en Niños

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Características clínicas, radiológicas y endoscópicas al diagnóstico de los pacientes con hipertensión portal prehepática en el Instituto Nacional de Pediatría del 2001 al 2011

Características clínicas, radiológicas y endoscópicas al diagnóstico de los pacientes con hipertensión portal prehepática en el Instituto Nacional de Pediatría del 2001 al 2011

Clinical, radiologic, and endoscopic characteristics upon diagnosis of patients with prehepatic portal hypertension at the Instituto Nacional de Pediatría from 2001 to 2011

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