Small-bowel mucosal changes in Egyptian cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension using capsule endoscopy versus single-balloon enteroscopy

Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 2 Comparison between cirrhotic patients with and without small bowel changes

	Small bowel finding	No small bowel finding	p value
	46/80 (57.5%)	34/80 (42.5%)	p value
MELD score
Mean ± SD	19.52 ± 4.03	11.06 ± 3.79	0.001*
Child score
A	4	24	0.001*
B	24	10
C	18	0
HB level
Mean ± SD	6.93 ± 1.49	9.08 ± 1.12	0.001*
Portal hypertensive gastropathy
Yes	46(100%)	18(53%)
No	0(0%)	16(47%)