Radioisotope investigations on portal hypertension syndrome in children

To study cardioportal blood flow in 21 children with syndrome of portal hypertension, radioportography and intraspleen radioportography investigations were carried on. As one of disadvantages of intravenous radioportography is dependence of this index on the state of the cardiovascular system as a whole, in some cases the intraspleen radioportography with 131I hyppuran was performed additionally. Advantage of this method in that it permits to determine the whole portal blood flow spleen to liver and simultaneously to reveal the presence of collateral blood flow which significantly adds and facilitates differential diagnostics of cirrhosis, chronical hepatitis and syndrome of extrahepatic portal hypertension