TY - JOUR T1 - Portal hypertension and its management in children JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-310022 SP - archdischild-2015-310022 AU - Tassos Grammatikopoulos AU - Patrick James McKiernan AU - Anil Dhawan Y1 - 2017/08/10 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2017/08/10/archdischild-2015-310022.abstract N2 - Portal hypertension (PHT), defined as raised intravascular pressure in the portal system, is a complication of chronic liver disease or liver vascular occlusion. Advances in our ability to diagnose and monitor the condition but also predict the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding have enabled us to optimise the management of children with PHT either at a surveillance or at a postbleeding stage. A consensus among paediatric centres in the classification of varices can be beneficial in streamlining future paediatric studies. New invasive (endoscopic and surgical procedures) and non-invasive (pharmacotherapy) techniques are currently used enabling clinicians to reduce mortality and morbidity in children with PHT. ER -