ABSTRACT
Objective To review the experience on the surgical management for advanced gastric carcinoma with portal hypertension. Methods In this study, 14 advanced gastric carcinoma with portal hypertension patients were analyzed retrospectively, liver cirrhosis was found in 13 cases. In 10 esophageal variceal patients, 5 had upper gastrointestinal bleeding history. All of those cases were associated with different degree of hypersplenism. The tumours situated at the upper third of the stomach in 2 patients, middle and upper third in 2 and lower third in 10. Five patients underwent curative distal subtotal gastrectomy and splenectomy, 2 cases did radical distal subtotal gatrectomy and pericardial devascularizaion, 2 curative distal subtotal gastrectomy combined with splenic artery ligation,2 did total gastrectomy and pericardial devascularizaion,2 cases did radical proximal gastrectomy and pericardial devascularization and 1 patient did distal subtotal gastrectomy only. Results Three died from extensive wound bleeding, jejunal fistula and liver failure respectively. 3 patients were complicated by left subdiaphragmatic abscess, hepatic dysfunction and massive ascites individually. The morbidity and mortality rate were 42.86% and 21.43% respectively. Conclusion The surgical procedures for patients of advanced gastric carcinoma with portal hypertension caused a considerably high postoperative mortality and morbidity rate.