Portal hypertensia.

Etiology and pathogenesis. It is observed at the intrahepatic block (as a result of a cirrhosis of a liver) and extrahepatic (a thrombophlebitis of a splenic vein, it is frequent at children who have transferred in the period newborn umbilical a sepsis; a congenital pathology of a portal vein). As a result there is a disturbance of intrahepatic or extrahepatic vessels to disturbance of outflow of a blood from portal system. The extrahepatic block at children meets more often.

Clinical picture. Massive is esophageal -gastric and intestinal bleedings, the hepatic failure, an accrueing ascites, abdominal pains, a vomiting, rise in temperature, head, a-pain, bad appetite, disturbance of a dream, growing thin, an icterus, the expanded venous network on a skin of a breast and a stomach, sometimes in the form of « a head of a jellyfish ». Current of disease quite often latent.