Clinical Study
Outcome of the Pediatric Patients with Portal Cavernoma: The Retrospective Study for 10 Years Focusing on Recurrent Variceal Bleeding
Table 4
Univariate analysis of factors involved in postprocedural recurrent variceal bleeding.
| | Recurrent variceal bleeding | With (24) | Without (33) | |
| | Age (years) | 7.8 ± 2.9 | 8.3 ± 3.9 | 0.351 | | Sex (M/F) | 15/9 | 24/9 | 0.564 | | Clinical presentations | | | | | Variceal bleeding 51 | 24 | 27 | 0.0357 | | Abdominal distension | 11 | 6 | 0.0394 | | Splenomegaly | 20 | 18 | 0.0017 | | Melena | 23 | 20 | 0.0039 | Degree of ascites
(heavy/medium/modicum/no) | 3/7/8/10 | 0/4/8/17 | | | Laboratory tests | | | | | Hb (g/L) | 89.2 ± 7.2 | 113.4 ± 6.8 | 0.0136 | | RBC (1012/L) | 3.28 ± 0.79 | 4.13 ± 0.68 | 0.0374 | | PLT (109/L) | 226.5 ± 42.8 | 325.4 ± 46.7 | 0.0725 | | PT (s) | 15.3 ± 0.42 | 13.6 ± 0.52 | 0.1365 | | WBC (109/L) | 6.7 ± 1.1 | 8.9 ± 1.3 | 0.0109 | | INR | 1.13 ± 0.02 | 1.16 ± 0.03 | 0.0914 | | γ-GGT (U/L) | 42.5 ± 6.9 | 40.6 ± 4.8 | 0.246 | | Serum Na (mmol/L) | 130.2 ± 3.8 | 135.1 ± 2.9 | 0.152 | | Serum K (mmol/L) | 3.5 ± 1.1 | 4.3 ± 1.2 | 0.0654 | | Portal venous pressure (cm H2O) | 33.8 ± 9.1 | 23.8 ± 6.7 | 0.006 | | Manifestation on angiography | | | | | Main portal vein | 15 | 23 | | | Right portal vein obstruction | 5 | 3 | | | Left portal vein obstruction | 2 | 3 | | | Splenic vein obstruction | 3 | 1 | | | Superior mesenteric vein obstruction | 2 | 0 | | | Collateral circulation | | | | | Lower esophagus and gastric fundal varices | 24 | 21 | 0.0006 | | Spontaneous splenorenal/gastrorenal shunt | 5 | 1 | | | Paraumbilical vein patefaction | 3 | 0 | | | Venous plexus of Retzius | 8 | 1 | | | Total | 11 | 2 | 0.0008 |
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Quantitative values are expressed as the means ± SEM. One-way ANOVA. Frequencies data were examined using Pearson’s test or Fisher’s exact test.
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