Portal Hypertension & Cirrhosis (Jun 2024)

One‐year status of hepatic venous pressure gradient measurement from 85 hospitals in China

  • Jitao Wang,
  • Ting Cui,
  • Linpeng Zhang,
  • Zhiping Yan,
  • Lei Li,
  • Jinjun Chen,
  • Junhui Sun,
  • Hua Xiang,
  • He Zhu,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Jiancuo Gengzang,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Guohong Cao,
  • Wuhua Guo,
  • Haibin Shi,
  • Hui Xue,
  • Guangjun Huang,
  • Qiang Yu,
  • Meng Niu,
  • Huiling Xiang,
  • Derun Kong,
  • Wei Gou,
  • Xuefeng Luo,
  • Fuliang He,
  • Min Yuan,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Hongjie Hu,
  • Xiaoli Zhu,
  • Tao Yu,
  • Qinxue Sun,
  • Wei Qu,
  • Ting Lu,
  • Deqiang Ma,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Jun Yang,
  • Ketao Mu,
  • Xiaoliang Zhu,
  • Kai Xiong,
  • Huiguo Ding,
  • Shengjuan Yao,
  • Mingsheng Huang,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Zexin Wang,
  • Yong Huang,
  • Jianan Li,
  • Hongfeng Yi,
  • Birun Huang,
  • Zhongwei Zhao,
  • Duiping Feng,
  • Yanming Lei,
  • Changlong Hou,
  • Wenbo Guo,
  • Shirong Liu,
  • Gaojun Teng,
  • Kangshun Zhu,
  • Fan Wu,
  • Xiaogang Hu,
  • Wenfeng Zhang,
  • Shaoqi Yang,
  • Zhouchao Hu,
  • Pengfei Pang,
  • Shaowu Zhuang,
  • Weidong Wang,
  • Qingliang Zhu,
  • Kunpeng Zhang,
  • Chengyu Liu,
  • Dongliang Li,
  • Chao Ma,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Xingong Zhao,
  • Weixin Ren,
  • Zhiwei Wang,
  • Lei Yu,
  • Fuhuang Lin,
  • Chaoguang Yan,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Lei Yu,
  • Hui Huan,
  • Wenyong Shen,
  • Shaofei He,
  • Chengda Zhang,
  • Jinlun Bao,
  • Jiangtao Liu,
  • Jun Wu,
  • Jianbo Zhao,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Xiaolong Qi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/poh2.68
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 116 – 123

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Abstract Aims Surveys and research on the applications of the hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) are important for understanding the current status and future development of this technology in China. This article aimed to investigate the status of hepatic venous pressure gradient measurement in China in 2022. Methods We investigated the overall status of HVPG technology in China—including hospital distribution, hospital level, annual number of cases, catheters used, average cost, indications, and current challenges by using online questionnaire. By counting the number and percentages of cases of these results, we hope to clarify the current status of HVPG measurements in China. Results According to the survey, 85 hospitals in China used HVPG technology in 2022 distributed across 29 provinces. A total of 4989 HVPG measurements were performed in all of the surveyed hospitals in 2022, of which 2813 cases (56.4%) were measured alone. The average cost of HVPG measurement was 5646.8 ± 2327.9 CNY. Of the clinical teams who performed the measurements (sometimes multiple per hospital), 94.3% (82/87) used the balloon method, and the majority of the teams (72.4%, 63/87) used embolectomy catheters. Conclusions This survey clarified the clinical application status of HVPG in China and confirmed that some medical institutions in China have established a foundation for this technology. It is still necessary to continue promoting and popularizing this technology in the future.

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