Table 2.

Approaches to treat thrombocytopenia induced by liver cirrhosis based on preoperative splenic volume[62]

Splenic volume	SV < 400 mL	400 mL ≤ SV ≤ 700 mL	700 mL< SV
Procedure	L-splenectomy	L-splenectomy	L-splenectomy
		or	or
		Single PSE	Repeated PSE
Target in PSE		Infarcted splenic area	Non-infarcted splenic area
		(infarcted splenic volume)	(infarcted splenic ratio and non-infarcted splenic volume)

SV: Splenic volume; L-Splenectomy: Laparoscopic splenectomy; PSE: Partial splenic embolization. Modified and adapted from reference[62].