Blood Ammonia Level Correlates with Severity of Cirrhotic Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy

Table 3

Relationship of portal hypertensive gastropathy severity with different variables.

Parameter	Portal hypertensive gastropathy severity ()		value
	Mild; ()	Severe; ()
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Age, years	53.43 ± 7.71	58.00 ± 8.15	0.076
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	10.86 ± 1.62	11.97 ± 2.11	0.055
Platelets (×10^9/L)	103.68 ± 32.44	96.08 ± 28.44	0.458
WBCs (×10^9/L)	5.05 ± 2.22	5.74 ± 2.23	0.341
AST (U/L)	63.59 ± 29.48	58.23 ± 16.26	0.538
ALT (U/L)	43.16 ± 17.54	43.85 ± 18.03	0.905
Serum albumin (g/dL)	3.06 ± 0.59	2.95 ± 0.52	0.578
Total serum bilirubin (mg/dL)	1.92 ± 1.35	1.59 ± 0.89	0.413
International normalized ratio	1.33 ± 0.26	1.18 ± 0.17	0.056
Creatinine (mg/dL)	0.98 ± 0.20	0.95 ± 0.26	0.672
Child-Pugh score	7.19 ± 2.17	7.31 ± 1.93	0.863
Blood ammonia (μg/dL)	151.39 ± 54.37	192.69 ± 59.87	0.026
Portal vein diameter (mm)	13.85 ± 1.68	13.07 ± 2.11	0.184
Splenic longitudinal diameter (cm)	16.31 ± 1.59	14.51 ± 1.26	0.001
Splenic vein diameter (mm)	11.39 ± 1.08	10.64 ± 1.39	0.052

Statistically significant at . ALT: alanine aminotransferase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; WBCs: white blood cells.