title: Budd-Chiari syndrome. Surgical treatment of 45 cases.
abstract: Fourty-five patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome were treated surgically from December 1985 to May 1988. The procedures consisted of cavoatrial shunt, mesoatrial shunt, transcardiac membranotomy, splenopneumopexy, portal vein-systemic vein shunt and re-opened umbilical vein-right auricle shunt, etc. Two of the patients died postoperatively. Others showed improvement after follow-up for 3-24 months. Recurrent hemorrhage from varices did not occur after operation in all patients. The diagnosis, surgical indications, and various methods of surgery for Budd-Chiari syndrome were discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Jinan.
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Q L
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D011859:Radiography; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery