Chronic congestive splenomegaly in children

Chronic congestive splenomegaly, also known as portal hypertension or Bantis syndrome, is a chronic, congestive, progressive disease of unknown cause, which is more common in older children. Chronic congestive splenomegaly is mainly caused by portal hypertension. The clinical features are chronic progressive splenomegaly, progressive anemia, leukocyte and thrombocytopenia, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Late signs of ascites, jaundice, liver dysfunction, and cirrhosis. Recently found that the symptoms are often concurrent with portal hypertension, but it is currently believed that splenomegaly and ldquo; hypersplenism rdquo; not just due to congestion, due to portal decompression can still have splenomegaly and hypersplenism.

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