[The potential of ultrasonographic detection of vascular pathology of the bowel in children with portal hypertension syndrome].

Complex ultrasonography gives the objective information about the structure of liver and spleen, as well as about the blood flow in the bowel vessels. Color flow mapping makes it possible to determine the grade of the blood filling of the bowel wall in children with portal hypertension syndrome (PHS). We have provided the qualitative indices of intestinal blood flow in healthy children and in children with PHS.

[Echographic signs of biliary atresia].

The assessment of echographic features of biliary atresia was conducted in 65 newborn children ageing up to 3 mo. Their characteristic variants were revealed: the absence or reduction in size of gall-bladder, the presence of hyperechogenic triangular formation in V. portae bifurcation (the symptom of "triangular cicatrix"); the thickening of anterior wall of V.

[The treatment of acute esophagogastric hemorrhage in the portal hypertension syndrome in children].

Twenty-eight children were treated in the clinic for acute gastro-esophageal bleeding in portal hypertension syndrome. Conservative therapy has proved to be effective in 85.8% of cases.