Budd-Chiari syndrome is the generic term for different forms of hepatic venous outflow obstruction resulting in a clinical picture of portal hypertension and hepatomegaly. Three levels of venous outflow obstruction may be recognized, affecting respectively the small intrahepatic (IVC). Each level of obstruction is related to a different aetiology. Clinical manifestations range from mild symptom...

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Budd-Chiari syndrome is characterized by hepatic venous outflow obstruction. We describe a patient with a huge caudate lobe of the liver due to Budd-Chiari syndrome. A 49-year-old woman was referred to Nippon Medical School Hospital to receive treatment for enlarged gastric varices. She had been followed up for idiopathic portal hypertension with deformity of the liver for 7 years and had under...

INTRODUCTION We describe an unusual case of acute hepatitis leading rapidly to acute liver failure. CLINICAL PICTURE Our patient had known chronic hepatitis B with a regenerating nodule confirmed on imaging and histology. He was admitted initially for abdominal discomfort after a trip to China, and investigations showed acute hepatitis with alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminas...

A 30 years old, non-alcoholic farmer from Trishal, Mymensingh was admitted in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital on 7 February, 2004 with the complaints of gradual swelling of abdomen, both legs and upper abdominal pain for 3 months. For the last 6 years, he was treated as a case of chronic liver disease (CLD) with spironolactone and frusemide. He was non-icteric, mildly anaemic with mild oede...

Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a rare condition which occurs when there is obstruction of the hepatic veins. It includes any condition in which there is obstruction to venous flow from the small hepatic veins to the inferior vena cava. It should be differentiated from veno-occlusive disease in which the sinusoidal epithelial cells of the hepatic venules are damaged; this mainly occurs after stem...