However, portal fibrosis was seen to reduce almost significantly in Group A patients postoperatively ( P = 0.056), in Group B patients it showed a slight increase and in Group C patients the increase in postoperative fibrosis was almost significant ( P = 0.056).
The changes in hepatic histopathological changes (ballooning of hepatocytes, giant cells, cholestasis, portal tract infiltration, ductular proliferation, lobular necrosis, and fibrosis) were also not significant but there was a definite trend in the change in fibrosis -1.500 ± 1.643 (Group A), 0.667 ± 2.582 (Group B), and 1.500 ± 1.852 (Group C) - reduction of fibrosis with good results and progression of fibrosis with poor results.
However, the changes between the three groups did not reach statistical significance.