Surgical repair for entire inferior vena cava occlusion in Budd-Chiari syndrome.
Successful repair of thrombotic occlusion of the entire inferior vena cava, including the iliac and hepatic veins, was performed on a 51-year-old man with Budd-Chiari syndrome associated with severe liver dysfunction.
Rikitake
Kazuhisa
K
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Saga Medical School, Nabeshima 5-1-1, Saga city 849-0937, Saga, Japan. rikitak@post.saga-med.ac.jp
Itoh
Tsuyoshi
T
Natsuaki
Masafumi
M
Katayama
Yuji
Y
Ohtsubo
Satoshi
S
Kataoka
Hiroumi
H
D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*