I am on the waitlist for a hepatologist at our best location but she says with a 9 kPa and my bloodwork as good as it is (she says it is better than most healthy people) I can't have portal hypertension. I have had ultrasounds and an MRI and and exray of my esophogus and nothing so far shows anything that points to that..so confusing. My GP says it is not a sign of portal hypertension always but it is a sign of cirrhosis...everything I have read says otherwise. My Child Pugh is a 6 and I am unsure of my MELD as she has not retested my INR/AST/Creatinine since this first came about late June but my albumin is39 which is at the top end of the scale and my alt is 33 and platelets are 137 and climbing...it doesn't fit at all with portal hypertension from what I know?