Functional hepatic flow in patients with liver cirrhosis

Table 1 Results of Duplex doppler and D-sorbitol clearance in 20 patients with liver cirrhosis and 10 healthy controls

	Controls	Cirrhosis	P
Portal blood flow (mL/min )	960.35 ± 220.86	1 181.10 ± 279.79	< 0.05
Hepatic artery flow (mL/min)	295.77 ± 82.59	424.13 ± 116.89	< 0.01
Total hepatic flow (THF) (mL/min)	1 256.12 ± 198.34	1 605.23 ± 279.99	< 0.01
THF per kg b.w. (mL/min)	20.14 ± 3.51	25.12 ± 4.40	< 0.01
D-sorbitol concentration in blood (mg/dI )	4.15 ± 0.81	6.05 ± 1.22	< 0.01
D-sorbitol total clearance (mL/min )	1 246.72 ± 242.59	857.22 ± 167.61	< 0.01
D-sorbitol urinary elimination rate (mg/min )	2.16 ± 1.0	5.58 ± 2.76	< 0.01
D-sorbitol renal clearance (mL/min )	51.67 ± 19.96	92.48 ± 48.66	< 0.05
Functional hepatic flow(FHF) (mL/min )	1 195.05 ± 242.97	764.74 ± 167.91	< 0.01
FHF per kg b.w. (mL/min )	19.18 ± 4.28	12.07 ± 2.40	< 0.01

The data are expressed as mean ± SD.