Abstract:

Because of little understanding about natural course of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension and lacking of highly qualitative multi-central prospective randomized control trial on different treatment techniques, surgical treatments on portal hypertension remain controversial. The prognosis of the patients with portal hypertension depends on the progression of primary liver disease, so the present traditional surgical operations could not obviously increase the survival rate. The final method for human being beating the disease relies on various ways to deal with donor sources, so that more patients with portal hypertension would benefit from liver transplantation. Furthermore, the basic research, including exploring the effective methods to postpone or reverse the liver cirrhosis and prevent and cure the primary liver disease, should be emphasized. Presently, to enhance the comprehensive perioperative managements would improve the outcomes of traditional operations on portal hypertension.