Staging of portal hypertension and portosystemic shunts using dynamic nuclear medicine investigations

Table 3 Distribution of all the patients and of those with cirrhosis according to the per-rectal portal shunt index and to our classification in 5 stages

Per-rectal portal shunt index (%)	Number of patients (n)		Cirrhosis	Stage in our classification
0-5	65		0	Stages 0 & 1
5-10	13		5	Stage 2
10-20	42	80	43	Stage 3
20-30	38
30-40	17	154	154	Stage 4
40-50	10
50-60	11
60-70	10
70-80	18
80-90	40
90-100	48
Total	312		202