title: Budd-Chiari syndrome: treatment with percutaneous transhepatic recanalization and dilation.
abstract: The authors describe a child with Budd-Chiari syndrome secondary to membranous obstruction of the hepatic veins and a web in the inferior vena cava. Transhepatic catheter venography demonstrated the occlusion, which was recanalized and dilated percutaneously via a transhepatic approach. Hepatomegaly and ascites decreased promptly and the prothrombin time became normal.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine 90024.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Lois
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hartzman
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: McGlade
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Berquist
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Perrella
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Busuttil
mesh_terms: D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006503:Hepatic Veins; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging