Acute Hepatitis Like Presentation of Budd Chiari Syndrome in a Child.
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2012-02
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Abstract
The patient presented with progressively increasing ascites
and pain abdomen but without any bleeding tendency,
or encephalopathy. The initial diagnosis of acute hepatitis
was proved wrong by contrast enhanced CT scan of
abdomen which showed atretic hepatic veins. Atretic hepatic
veins causing Budd Chiari Syndroem (BCS) is a rarity in
literature.
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Budd chiari syndrome (BCS), acute hepatitis
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Khanna Alok, Abrol Pankaj, Sood Vijay Lakshmi, Agarwal Shalini, Dalal Jagjit Singh. Acute Hepatitis Like Presentation of Budd Chiari Syndrome in a Child. Indian Medical Gazette. 2012 Feb ; 145 (2): 81-84.