Eduard Mogilevets, Head of the 1st Department of Surgical Diseases, Grodno State Medical University, Candidate of Medical Sciences, associate professor.

Summary.
Portal hypertension as a serious complication of liver cirrhosis is among other reasons causing the gastroesophageal varicose bleeding and resulting in high mortality rates. The article analyses the results of laparoscopic esophagogastric devascularization without esophageal transsection and splenectomy in a patient with liver cirrhosis portal hypertension and recurrent bleeding first successfully performed in the Grodno Municipal Clinical Hospital N 4 in November 2011. Immediate and long-term results show a rather high efficiency of this operation method.
Keywords: liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension, esophageal varices, laparoscopic esophagogastric devascularization, azigoportal disconnection.
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