Blood Ammonia Level Correlates with Severity of Cirrhotic Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy

Table 5

Correlation between portal hypertensive gastropathy score and different variables.

Parameter	Portal hypertensive gastropathy score; ()
	R	value
Age (years)	0.187	0.194
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	0.325	0.021
Platelets (×10^9/L)	−0.127	0.378
WBCs (×10^9/L)	0.114	0.431
AST (U/L)	−0.066	0.651
ALT (U/L)	−0.014	0.922
Serum albumin (g/dL)	−0.072	0.620
Total serum bilirubin (mg/dL)	−0.080	0.581
International normalized ratio (INR)	−0.137	0.342
Creatinine (mg/dL)	0.086	0.555
Child-Pugh score	−0.228	0.111
Blood ammonia (μg/dL)	0.295	0.037
Portal vein diameter (mm)	−0.142	0.325
Splenic longitudinal diameter (cm)	−0.383	0.006
Splenic vein diameter (mm)	−0.233	0.104

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