Surgical management of the Budd-Chiari syndrome: early experience.
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| ID: sea-65596
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Early decompression is needed in the Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) to prevent liver dysfunction and death.AIMS:
To study the technical difficulties during surgery and the results of surgery for BCS.METHODS:
Retrospective review of nine patients operated on between 1994 and January 1998 for BCS--1 for uncontrolled fundal variceal bleed and 8 for chronic BCS. Isolated hepatic vein block was found in 5, inferior vena cava (IVC) block in 1 and a combination in 3 patients. Preoperative liver biopsies did not reveal cirrhosis in any patient. Portacaval shunt (3), portorenal shunt (2), mesocaval shunt (1), mesoatrial shunt (2) and devascularisation (1) were the operations performed.RESULTS:
In 3 patients, side-to-side portacaval shunt was not possible because of caudate lobe hypertrophy (1), aberrant right hepatic artery (1) and presence of IVC stent (1); they required portorenal (2) or interposition mesocaval (1) shunts. Both mesoatrial shunts were unsuccessful. Devascularisation was effective in controlling the acute bleed. There was no intraoperative death. Postoperatively there were 3 deaths. Of the 6 survivors, 5 are asymptomatic over a mean follow up of 19.7 months.CONCLUSIONS:
Side-to-side portacaval shunt is effective in the management of BCS; results with the mesoatrial shunt are disappointing.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical
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Retrospective Studies
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Treatment Outcome
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Adult
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Budd-Chiari Syndrome
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Hypertension, Portal
Type of study:
Observational study
Language:
English
Year:
1999
Type:
Article
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