Portal hypertensive gastropathy is a term for describing endoscopic changes of stomach mucosa formed by typical mosaic like pattern with or without red spots. Histologically is characterised by dilatation of mucosal and submucosal capillaries and venules by venous congestion without presense of inflammatory changes. Clinically it can cause acute or chronic gastrointestinal bleeding. We are summarising contemporary knowledge of PHG and describing our own group od 82 PHG patients. According to our results, we can confirm, that appearance of PHG is closely bound with presence of portal hypertension, but the value of portal pressure is not influencing the severity of PHG. The most frequent cause of PH and PHG also in our country is liver cirrhosis, mostly caused by alcolol induced injury.

        Key words: portal hypertensive gastropathy, liver cirrhosis, gastrointestinal bleeding, betablockers