Liver transplantation for Budd-Chiari sy
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Sarwa Darwish Murad; Patrick S. Kamath
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) results from obstruction to the hepatic venous outflow tract from the level of the hepatic venules to the entrance of the inferior vena cava into the right atrium. 1 This obstruction causes venous stasis, centrilobular congestion, and hepatocyte necrosis, which leads t