Mendilahaxon PER, Medina GY, Suárez HJA, López MVM, Moré PA, Álvarez CL

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: cirrhosis is the most advanced phase of liver diseases with high morbidity and mortality. There are non-invasive methods for diagnosing portal hypertension, such as Doppler ultrasound, which is currently performed on a regular basis in the diagnosis of patients with liver cirrhosis. Objective: to describe the clinical, endoscopic and sonographic relationship in patients diagnosed with liver cirrhosis treated at the Provincial Hepatology Consultation of the Arnaldo Milián Castro Hospital. Method: a descriptive, cross sectional study was carried out. The population consisted of all patients diagnosed with liver cirrhosis treated in 2015 and 2016. A non-probabilistic sampling was performed, 77 patients were selected. Results: 53 patients belong to the age group between 40-59 years, male patients predominated, 39 (50.65%) had a pathological abdominal ultrasound, of the 77 endoscopies, pathological findings compatible with portal hypertension were found in 31 (40, 26%) and the sonographic findings were related to the greater time of diagnosis of the disease, regardless of the etiology. Conclusions: patients with liver cirrhosis were in the middle age of life and were more male, approximately half presented alterations in the Doppler of the splenoportal axis and endoscopic signs of portal hypertension, the sonographic findings were related to the greater time of diagnosis of the disease, regardless of the etiology and the complications related to portal hypertension were significantly associated with the ultrasonographic and endoscopic pathological findings.