Objective This experiment is to compare the effect of two operations “disconnection” and “ligation” of separation of gastroesophageal peripharal blood vessel in portal hypertension and provide base of rational for selecting reasonable method of separation of gastroesophageal peripheral blood vessel in portal hypertension.MethodsFortyeight SD rats were induced to model of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension by CCL4 . They were divided at random into 3 groups (16 rats each): disconnection group, ligation group and pseudooperation group. There was also a normal comparison group with 6 normal SD rats (laparotomy only). Thirty days and 100 days after the operation, 8 rats were killed respectively in every group except for the normal comparison group. Thirty days after the operation, the rats of normal comparison group were killed. The adhesion around gastric cardia and fundus with the building of new branch blood vessels, and the relative average blood vessel amounts and average vein caliber changes in submucosa layer and lamina propria layer of esophagus inferior segment were observed. ResultsIn the observation of adhesion around gastroesophageal and the building of new branch blood vessels after the operations, disconnection group was more marked than ligation group. In the observation of relative average blood vessel amounts and average vein calibers changes in submucosa layer and lamina propria layer of esophagus inferior segment, pseudooperation group was more marked than in normal comparison group in different time(P<0.05),and 30 days after the operations, disconnection and ligation groups were less serious than pseudooperation group(P<0.05). One hundred days after the operation, the two observation indexes of all the groups were more serious than before, and result of disconnection group was nearly close to pseudooperation group(Pgt;0.05), but ligation group was still less serious than pseudooperation group(P<0.05).Conclusion Both the “disconnection” and “ligation” operation have the same rank effect of separation of gastroesophageal peripharal blood vessel in short time. But the “ligation” operation makes less trauma, postoperative adhesion and vascularizition, then the separation effect of the “ligation” operation may sustain a relatively long time.