Budd-Chiari syndrome: treatment with percutaneous transhepatic recanalization and dilation.
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.
Lois
J F
JF
Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine 90024.
Hartzman
S
S
McGlade
C T
CT
Gomes
A S
AS
Grant
E C
EC
Berquist
W
W
Perrella
R R
RR
Busuttil
R W
RW
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