title: Hepato-atrial anastomosis, the "other Senning operation" for treatment of Budd-Chiari syndrome.
abstract: A now 36-year-old woman developed a suprahepatic inferior vena cava stenosis, 9 years after liver transplantation for extensive liver echinococcosis. The lesion was treated by percutaneous angioplasty and stenting. Five years later, recurrence of echinococosis with intrastent stenosis together with clinical symptoms, prompted surgical treatment. Hepato-atrial anastomosis was performed under cardiopulmonary bypass with good result.
authors.affiliation: Department of cardiac surgery, University Hospital Centre of Canton Vaux (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland. ddelay@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Delay
authors.forename: Christelle
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lardi
authors.forename: Andres
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jaussi
authors.forename: Ludwig K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: von Segesser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000601:surgery*; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D013557:Switzerland; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*