title: Acute Budd-Chiari syndrome resulting from a pyogenic liver abscess.
abstract: Budd-Chiari syndrome is a rare condition resulting from outflow obstruction of the liver. This syndrome due to a pyogenic abscess is rarely documented in the English literature. Here a male patient with acute Budd Chiari syndrome is presented. A 21-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital because of severe right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, hepatomegaly and fever. The examination of liver by computerized tomography and ultrasound revealed a large lesion 120 x l00 mm in size located in the right lobe of liver, which was compressing the inferior vena cava, the right and middle hepatic veins. Twenty-three days after percutaneous catheter drainage and medical treatment, the patient was discharged with complete healing. Although many disorders including malignant diseases can cause Budd-Chiari Syndrome, a pyogenic liver abscess compressing the inferior vena cava, and hepatic veins leading to acute Budd-Chiari syndrome has been rarely reported in English medical literature. Patients presenting with abdominal pain, hepatomegaly, and ascites should be carefully evaluated from this point of view.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University School of Medicine Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Karadag
authors.forename: Devrim
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Akinci
authors.forename: Duygu Yazgan
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Aksoy
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bayraktar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D046290:Liver Abscess, Pyogenic / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology