Patients with liver cirrhosis splenomegaly Why is there?

Most patients with liver cirrhosis complications, the degree of swelling of acute hepatitis and texture significantly harder. Under normal physiological conditions, spleen vein, portal, superior mesenteric vein from the portal blood flow through the liver, pooling in the inferior vena cava, the blood circulation. When liver cirrhosis cycle was severely damaged, and portal venous system blocked the return of blood, it increased pressure, cirrhosis of an important pathological changes, "portal hypertension." As the splenic vein direct portal venous flow, portal hypertension can splenic venous obstruction, reticuloendothelial cells and fibrous tissue hyperplasia, spleen clot, thereby congestive enlarged spleen. And Hypersplenism phenomenon, clinically referred to as "liver syndrome." Cirrhosis of sexual maturity, he has to consider portal hypertension gradually increased, the possibility of gastrointestinal bleeding. Therefore splenomegaly dynamic observation of clinical understanding of his illness has important significance.