title: Management of complex patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome.
abstract: Therapy for patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome is well established. For those with commonly seen localized lesions, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or stenting is the first-line treatment. Treatment methods for severely ill patients in whom intervention has failed, or those in a poor general condition, are worth exploring. From February 2002 to July 2008, 31 patients were referred to us. Eighteen patients had a failed intervention, 4 had undergone surgery, and 10 had conservative therapy. All had intractable ascites or/and hematemesis. The procedures carried out in this series included mesocavoatrial shunt in 10 patients, radical correction in 9, mesocavojugular shunt in 7 (including 2 mesojugular shunts), mesocaval shunt in 2, cavoatrial shunt in 2 (including a revision of cavoatrial shunt), and cavojugular shunt in 1. Surgical mortality and postoperative complications were both 3.2%. Twenty-eight patients had a mean follow-up of 40 months. Outcome of follow-up was measured as excellent, good, fair, poor, and death (28.6%, 53.6%, 10.7%, 3.6%, and 3.6%, respectively). The total mortality of the group is 6.5%. After appropriate preoperative evaluation and preparation, active and cautious treatment individualized to the underlying disease may help severely ill patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, XuanWu Hospital, The Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Chun-Min
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhong-Gao
authors.initials: ZG
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yong-Quan
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Heng-Xi
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ce
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bian
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000401:mortality; D001201:Ascites / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006396:Hematemesis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010690:Phlebography; D012086:Reoperation; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D015607:Stents; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D055815:Young Adult