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The prevalence of portal hypertensive gastropathy and duodenopathy in some Egyptian cirrhotic patients.
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology 2004 December
Portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG) and duodenopathy (PHD) are frequent in patients with cirrhosis, both are a dynamic condition that can progress from mild to severe and vice versa or even disappear completely. This study included 300 individuals classified into three groups. G I included 116 patients with mixed liver pathology (post-viral cirrhosis and post-Bilharzial fibrosis). G II included 84 patients with pure post hepatitic viral cirrhosis. Hundred healthy individual of comparable age and sex serving as control group. Upper endoscopic examination was done for all groups; gastric varices, gastric congestion and duodenal congestion were detected in 12%, 19.5% and 14.5%, respectively in Gs I & II with statistically significant difference when they were compared to controls (P- < 0.01). In conclusion, high prevalence of PHG and PHD in cirrhotic patients was either due to post-viral cirrhosis or mixed pathology.
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