title: [Liver failure in a 27 years old female patient].
abstract: We report about a 27-years old female patient with acute liver failure due to an acute Budd Chiari Syndrom (thrombosis of all three liver veins an vena cava inferior) with caval web, birth control pills and after long distance flight. After successfull aspiration of the caval thrombus and dilatation of caval web liver transplantation could be bypassed. Two weeks after  intervention the patient was in a good healthy condition with normal laboratory values, normal liver size, normal perfusion of the V. cava inferior and signs of reperfusion of the middle liver vein.
authors.affiliation: Departement Innere Medizin, Kantonsspital St. Gallen. mikael.sawatzki@kssg.ch
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gertsch
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pfammatter
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hechelhammer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyenberger
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Semela
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sawatzki
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D017114:Liver Failure, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior