Correlation of severity of portal hypertensive gastropathywith child pugh class and diabetes in cirrhotic patients

Background as burden of diabetes and hcv/hbv infection is on the rise so are their related complications. portal hypertensive gastropathy(phg)is one of these complications and its severity is thought to increase with increasing child class and by presence of diabetes. aim: to find the correlation between severity of portal hypertensive gastropathywith child class and assess the difference in cirrhotic diabetics versus non diabetic cirrhotics. methods: an observational cross sectional study of 180 hepatitis b and c patients having portal hypertension with or without diabetes. these patients underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and fasting blood sugar (fbs) examination. results: 180 patients (95 male and 85 female) had different stages of gastropathyand were either diabetics or non diabetics. the mean age of patients was 55.6years. grades of child class and severity of phg were correlated as well as with diabetic status which showed significant correlation (p-value: 0.006 and 0.008),no significant correlation between child class and diabetic status (p-value 0.062). conclusion: worsening of phg from mild to severe is seen in higher grades of child class and phg is more severe in diabetic cirrhoticsas compared to their non diabetic counter parts.