Why is there cirrhosis patients splenomegaly

Most patients with liver cirrhosis have splenomegaly, and the degree of swelling significantly more acute hepatitis and hard texture. Under normal physiological state, spleen vein, portal, such as the superior mesenteric vein blood from the portal vein flows through the liver, pooled in the inferior vena cava, the blood in circulation. Cirrhosis, liver cycle was severely damaged, portal system disruption of blood returning to increase the pressure, cirrhosis of the formation of an important pathological changes, "portal hypertension." As a direct-entry splenic vein vein, portal hypertension can delay returning splenic vein, reticuloendothelial cells and fibrous tissue proliferation, spleen congestion, so that congestive enlarged spleen. And hypersplenism phenomenon, clinical "liver and spleen syndrome." Cirrhosis sexual splenomegaly portal hypertension will have to consider gradually increased, the possibility of gastrointestinal bleeding. So dynamic observation splenomegaly, clinical understanding of the condition is important.