Association Between Platelet Count and Grading of Esophageal Varices in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

Background: Upper GI endoscopy is the gold standard technique for diagnosing esophageal varices and to assess risk of bleeding but invasive in nature, costly, time consuming burden department. Besides this platelet count also an important tool predict cirrhotic patient it a highly accurate test. has been noted that patients with varices, less than 100,000/cmm very few data available so aim current study was find out association between mean grading liver cirrhosis. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional conducted at medicine department Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), Karachi. For testing blood sample sent pathology laboratory hospital. Gastroenterologist performed upper gastrointestinal grade varices. Data analyzed by using Statistical Package Social Science (SPSS) version-20. ANOVA Post-Hoc Tuckey test applied correlation variables. p-value 0.05 considered as significant. Results: The age participants 34.9±8.6 years. Majority were male (61.1%) compared their counterparts. among 113,200±29000 /u L majority included having III (39.5%). It decreased increasing Cirrhotic Grade I near normal those who V markedly I, II, IV. Conclusion: can be concluded significantly inverse low count, worst So used screening purpose cost effective Keywords: Cirrhosis, Esophageal Mean Platelet