Budd-Chiari syndrome and heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in polycythemia vera: Successful treatment with repeated TIPS and intrferon alpha

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 305-308

  Akoum, Riad ^a   Mahfoud, Daniel ^a   Ghaoui, Albert ^a   Haddad, Nadine ^a   Mahfoud, Nathalie ^b   Farhat, Hussein ^a   Khoury, Joe ^a  

^a RIZK HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

^b Hôpital des S urs du Rosaire   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Budd Chiari syndrome; Heparin induced thrombocythopenia; Polycythemia vera

Indexed keywords

ANTIVITAMIN K; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; JAK2 GENE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PUERPERIUM; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYCYTHEMIA VERA; POLYSACCHARIDES; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VITAMIN K;

EID: 77749254900     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.59917     Document Type: Article

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