Budd-Chiari syndrome: Illustrated review of current management

Liver International

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 455-466

  Horton, John D ^a   San Miguel, Francisco L ^a   Ortiz, Jorge A ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS TRANSPLANT INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Budd Chiari; Hepatic vein thrombosis; Liver transplantation; Portasystemic shunt, surgical; Portasystemics hunt, transjugular intrahepatic; Review

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANAGRELIDE; FUROSEMIDE; HEPARIN; HYDROXYUREA; SPIRONOLACTONE; WARFARIN;

ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULATION; ASCITES; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIURETIC THERAPY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARACENTESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SODIUM RESTRICTION; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANTS; BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 40949121135     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2008.01684.x     Document Type: Review

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