Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a hepatic venous outflow block generally resulting from disorders affecting hepatic venous system. Elevated hepatic venous pressure results in portal hypertension. BCS may also cause hepatic encephalopathy. Echinococcus multilocularis is a tapeworm parasite and the natural course of the disease may affect liver parenchyma as well as hepatic venous tree. It is the m...

This report is of a 63-year-old man with polycythemia vera who developed the Budd-Chiari syndrome due to right hepatic vein stenosis. Diagnosis was made by laparoscopy and liver biopsy, and confirmed by hepatic venography. The patient was treated by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, and recovered completely from ascites, leg oedema and venous stasis. No pulmonary embolism was observed. One...

is appropriate, here in Bristol, the city of William Budd, to address a medical audience on the subject of tuberculosis, a disease for ever associated with his name. If the responsibilities of a large practice and the study of typhoid fever and other diseases closed for William Budd the paths of experimental investigation and research that were so successfully followed by his great French conte...

Sir,?The paper I send enclosed was received by me last December, in sealed packet, from Dr. William Budd, of Clifton, with a request that I would take charge of it until he should direct me to break the seal. At his desire, opened the packet a few days ago, and I now send you the contents, request' ing the favour of their early publication in The Lancet. They are an epitofl^ of what Dr. W. Budd...

The report concerns a 21-year-old woman who, after having taken oral contraceptives for three months, developed the Budd-Chiari syndrome as the results of a widespread chronic obliterative process involving the intrahepatic venous system. The diagnosis was established by liver biopsy. She was treated with supportive measures and completely recovered after 28 days of hospitalization. The literat...

OBJECTIVES Budd-Chiari syndrome is a low-prevalence, life-threatening disorder characterized by hepatic venous outflow obstruction at the hepatic venules, the large hepatic veins, the inferior vena cava, or the right atrium. Orthotopic liver transplant should be considered for patients with fulminant and chronic forms of the syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fourteen patients received 15 orthot...

BACKGROUND Endovascular management is important for the treatment of primary Budd-Chiari syndrome, which is caused by inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction. The aims of this study were to compare long-term outcomes of endovascular management for primary Budd-Chiari syndrome patients with membranous obstruction of IVC (MOVC) and segmental obstruction of IVC (SOVC) and explore the optimal endovasc...