People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Abdominal pain is frequent (61%) and in many patients it has occurred over several months. 50% of the patients had pain for less than 1 month, 34% for 1–6 months and 14% for greater than 6 months.

The wide variation in the management of Budd Chiari syndrome between centres could partly be explained by the lack of controlled clinical trials for this disease. 1 The prognostic index scores derived ...

The JAK2 V617F mutation can be found in 26–52% of people with classical Budd-Chiari syndrome. The most common causes of the condition are MPNs such as polycythemia vera. MPNs can also progress to ...

Budd-Chiari Syndrome (BCS) is an obstruction to the liver venous outflow due to thrombosis or phlebitis of the hepatic veins and inferior vena cava 1. The clinical picture can vary from asymptomatic ...

Three cadaver and two live donor transplants were performed for patients suffering from rare genetic liver diseases, including Tyrosinemia Type 1, Wilson’s disease, and Chronic Budd-Chiari Syndrome.

The Budd–Chiari syndrome (BCS) was first described by a British physician, William Budd in 1845 in his seminal work 'Diseases of the Liver'. He reported the case of a man who died in King's ...

Most patients with Budd-Chiari Syndrome (BCS) fail to receive screening for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), according to a recent study. Among 1124 adults diagnosed with Budd-Chiari ...

However, when researchers adjusted for PNH’s rarity (3.81 cases per 100,000 individuals), the PPV decreased to 19.59% (95% CI, 7.63% to 41.81%), suggesting that approximately 1 in 5 flagged ...

First liver transplant for a child with rare Budd-Chiari Syndrome Children's Hospital No.2 in Ho Chi Minh City has recently performed a liver transplant for a three-year-old child with Budd-Chiari ...