Table 2 Clinical presentation in patients with cancer or cirrhosis, and patients without cancer and cirrhosis
From: Portal vein thrombosis; risk factors, clinical presentation and treatment
Analysis | Patients with cancer or cirrhosis N = 19 | Patients without cancer and cirrhosis N = 48 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Presentation | Presentation | |||||
Acute | Chronic | N (% of total) | Acute | Chronic | N (% of total) | |
Abdominalia | 7 (70%) | 5 (56%) | 46 (63%) | 16 (94%) | 18 (58%) | 34 (71%) |
Splenomegaly | 7 (70%) | 5 (56%) | 12 (63%) | 10 (59%) | 26 (84%) | 36 (75%) |
Fever | 5 (50%) | 2 (22%) | 7 (37%) | 10 (59%) | 5 (16%) | 15 (31%) |
Haemorrhage | 6 (22%) | 5 (35%) | 11 (58%) | 0 | 9 (29%) | 9 (19%) |
Ascites | 4 (40%) | 2 (22%) | 6 (32%) | 8 (47%) | 10 (38%) | 18 (38%) |
Weight loss | 1 (10%) | 2 (22%) | 3 (16%) | 9 (53%) | 7 (23%) | 16 (33%) |
Total | 10 (53%) | 9 (47%) | 19 (100%) | 17 (35%) | 31 (65%) | 48 (100%) |