Table 2.

Literature review of case reports depicting the prognosis of patients with left-sided portal hypertension.

References	Country	Age (years)	Gender	Clinical presentations at admission	Primary pancreatic diseases	Location of varices	Interventions	Follow-up period	Outcome
Singhal et al. [19]	India	63	Female	Hematemesis and melena	Pancreatic cystadenoma	Gastric varices	Distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy	5 years	Survived
Thompson et al. [20]	UK	57	Female	Upper gastrointestinal bleeding	Pancreatic pseudocyst	Gastric varices	Cystotomy and splenectomy	NA	Survived
		53	Male	Melena	Pancreatic somatostatinoma	Gastric varices	NA		Survived
		42	Female	Upper gastrointestinal bleeding	Metastatic pancreatic cancer	Gastric varices	Laparotomy of gastric variceal ligation		NA
Ito et al. [21]	Japan	68	Male	No presentation	Pancreatic serous cystadenoma	Gastric varices	Distal pancreatectomy plus splenectomy	NA	Survived
Franzoni et al. [22]	Brazil	19	Female	Hematemesis	Pancreatic hemangioma	Esophagogastric varices	Endoscopic band ligation and β-blocker treatment before childbirth Distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy after childbirth	7 years	Survived
Li et al. [23]	China	34	Female	Acute epigastric pain, hematemesis, and melena	Acute pancreatitis	Gastric and perisplenic varices	Splenic arterial embolization	5 months	Survived
El Kininy et al. [24]	Ireland	38	Male	Epigastric pain and vomiting	Acute pancreatitis	Splenic varices	Laparotomy, interventional drainages, and splenic vein stent	11.5 months	Survived
Canbak et. al. [25]	Turkey	26	Male	Abdominal pain	Pancreatic hydatid cyst	Splenic hilus and gastroepiploic vein dilatation	Cystotomy	7 months	Survived
Serrano et al. [26]	USA	68	Female	Epigastric pain, hematemesis, and melena	Live segmental pancreas donation	Gastric varices	Laparoscopic adhesiolysis and splenectomy	1 month	Survived

Abbreviation: NA: not available.