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Long-term follow-up of children with extrahepatic portal vein obstruction: impact of an endoscopic sclerotherapy program on bleeding episodes, hepatic function, hypersplenism, and mortality
Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 10/26/09

Maksoud–Filho JG et al. – Endoscopic sclerotherapy is an efficient treatment for children with EHPVO. The incidence of rebleeding is low, and there was no mortality. Children develop mild liver dysfunction and hypersplenism with long–term follow–up. Only a few patients manifest symptoms of hypersplenism, portal biliopathy, or liver dysfunction before adolescence.

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