Portal hypertensive enteropathy

Table 1 Endoscopy based classification systems for portal hypertensive enteropathy

	De Palma et al[29]	Abdelaal et al[28]	Kodama et al[30]
Classification	Inflammatory lesions	Inflammatory-like lesions	Villous abnormalities
	Vascular lesions	Red spots	Edema
		Angioectasia	Atrophy
		Small bowel varices	Erythema
			Vascular lesions
			angiodysplasia-like lesions
			dilated/proliferated vessels
			varices
Scoring system	None	One point for each type of lesion. An additional point for > 2 lesions	One point for each type of lesion
Clinical significance	Associated with PHG, PHC, large esophageal varices and Child-Pugh class C cirrhosis	Associated with PHG, large esophageal varices, Child-Pugh class C cirrhosis, and a history of EVL	Associated with ascites

PHG: Portal hypertensive gastropathy; PHC: Portal hypertensive colopathy; EVL: Endoscopic variceal ligation.