METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF RISK OF PORTAL HYPERTENSION GASTROPAHTY ACCOMPANYING HEPATIC CIRRHOSIS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B5/00 G01N33/49 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves identifying risk factors from the previous medical history and clinical-laboratory findings: patient's sex, course of administration of the preparation Propranol, if any, haemoglobin level, thrombin time, splenic vein size, hepatic encephalopathy, varicosity bleeding, all to be graded and quantified. Deriving and comparing prognostic coefficients makes it possible to predict a risk level of portal hypertension gastropathy in the patient suffering hepatic cirrhosis.

EFFECT: method enables the high-accuracy prediction of the clinical course of the above disease that is ensured by taking into account a complex of significant values, and hence holding the timely therapeutic and preventive actions in high-risk groups.

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