Establishment of a model of portal hypertension by portal vein coarctation and splenic vein ligation in dogs

Objective To observe the changes of portal vein system after coarctation of portal vein and ligation of splenic vein with the purpose of making sure whether it could prepare a model of portal hypertension with hypersplenism or not.Methods The model was established through coarctation of portal vein and ligation of splenic vein in 15 dogs.Monitoring the hemogram preoperative and weekly after the op-eration.At the point of the 5th,Tth,9th week after the operation, respectively and randomly selected 5 ani-mals to observe the condition of portal vein pressure, sizes of spleen and the collateral circulation, in addi-tion, also to take the pathology examination of the spleens and detect the accrementition of bone marrow.Results After coarctation of portal vein and ligation of splenic vein, the RBC and PLT counts decreased obviously, and could effectively last for 9 weeks.The splenic histopathology changes conformed to the chan-ges of the congestive splenomegaly, and the accrementition of bone marrow was much more active.Conclu-sion The alleosis of portal vein system conformed to the Portal hypertension,especially the condition of hypersplenism was satisfactory, so the model would have favourable value of scientific research. Key words: Portal hypertension;  Hypersplenism;  Models,animal;  Dogs