Primary Budd-Chiari syndrome due to complex venous anomalies.
A 35-year-old woman with clinical features of Budd-Chiari syndrome is presented. Abdominal ultrasonography, computed tomography, and venography disclosed that the venous congestion in this patient resulted from complex venous anomalies including azygos-hemiazygos continuation, absent superior hepatic veins, and retroaortic transposition of the left renal vein.
Sakamoto
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Department of Internal Medicine, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, Ibaraki 300, Japan.
Koizumi
K
K
Asahina
Y
Y
Tazawa
J
J
Maeda
M
M
Marumo
F
F
Sato
C
C
D000328:Adult; D001401:Azygos Vein / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D012082:Renal Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities*