title: Budd-Chiari syndrome with long segmental inferior vena cava obstruction: treatment with thrombolysis, angioplasty, and intravascular stents.
abstract: The authors describe a patient with Budd-Chiari syndrome caused by long segmental thrombotic obstruction of the inferior vena cava associated with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. The patient was successfully treated with a combination of local thrombolytic therapy, balloon angioplasty, and placement of Gianturco expandable metallic stents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishiguchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukatsu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimamoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakuma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D015607:Stents; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging