Gastrointestinal Bleeding due to Pancreatic Disease-Related Portal Hypertension

Table 3

Literature review of case series regarding the prognosis of patients with left-sided portal hypertension.

References	Country	Study duration	Age (years)	Cases with left-sided portal hypertension	Primary pancreatic diseases	Intervention	Follow-up periods	Outcome
Sakorafas et al. [27]	USA	1976-1977	46 (19-74)	34	Chronic pancreatitis	Pancreatic surgery ()	NA	Died ()
Wang et al. [28]	China	1.2000-12.2009		13	Chronic pancreatitis (); Pancreatic cancer (); Pancreatic cysts (); Neuroendocrine tumor ()	Surgical procedures ()	months	Died ()
Liu et al. [16]	China	1.2001-12.2011		21	Acute pancreatitis (); Chronic pancreatitis (); Pancreatic cancer (); Benign pancreatic tumor ()	Endoscopic variceal treatment (); Surgical procedures (); Splenic artery embolization ()	NA	Died ()
Zhang et al. [29]	China	1.1.1997-6.30.2012		73	Pancreatic cancer	Radical operations ()	NA	Died ()
Rana et al. [30]	India	1.2012-11.2015		18	Acute necrotizing pancreatitis	Transmural drainage ()	weeks	All survived

Abbreviation: NA: not available.