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In the period from 1985 to 1992 sixty-three patients aged from 7 months to 15 years were treated for the portal hypertension syndrome, 60 had the extrahepatie form. Forty-five various operations for portosystemic shunting were carried out: formation of proximal splenorenal anastomosis in 31, distal splenorenal anastomosis in 4, mesentericocaval anastomosis in 6, gastrocaval anastomisis in 2, and an atypical vascular shunt in 2 cases. Nonshunting operations were performed on 8 patients. Since 1986 39 sessions of endoscopic sclerotherapy were conducted, 16 of them were carried out in cases with esophagogastric bleeding.

Operations were carried out on 98 children with extrahepatic portal hypertension and on 6 with intrahepatic block and no signs of hepatocellular insufficiency. Mesenterico-caval H-shunt was formed in 78 children with the use of the internal jugular vein as the insert. The remaining children underwent formation of mesocaval anastomosis (8), distal spleno-renal shunt (4), portocaval anastomosis (1), Sugiura's operation (7). Among the operations 68 were planned, 12 emergency, and 18 preventive. The average age of the children was 6.5 years; 31 were under the age of 5 years and 19 under 3 years of age. The youngest child was aged 10 months, the H-shunt was successful. The results of the operation: thrombosis of the shunt 0%, portosystem encephalopathy 0%, recurrent hemorrhage 0%, lethality 1%. This is evidence of the expediency of performing shunting operations in early childhood.