Membranous Budd-Chiari syndrome in a well-anticoagulated patient.
We describe an unusual case of a 54-year-old woman who was diagnosed with a subacute Budd-Chiari syndrome due to membranous venous obstruction in the inferior vena cava. The unusual feature of this case was that she had been diagnosed with pulmonary emboli a few years earlier and was on lifelong warfarin with a therapeutic international normalised ratio. She was effectively treated by venoplasty.
Lancashire Teaching Hospital, Chorley, UK. hassan.hatab@lthtr.nhs.uk
Hassan
H
Hatab
Faiaz
F
Mohammed
Robert
R
Stockwell
Hugh
H
McMurtry
D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities; D014859:Warfarin / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D000925:Anticoagulants; D014859:Warfarin