Budd‐chiari syndrome causing acute liver failure: A multicenter case series

Justin Parekh, Vlad M. Matei, Alejandro Canas‐Coto, Daniel Friedman, William M. Lee, the Acute Liver Failure Study Group – 22 September 2016 – Budd‐Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a rare disease resulting from obstruction of the hepatic venous outflow tract that typically presents with abdominal pain, jaundice, and ascites without frank liver failure. However, BCS may also evolve more rapidly to acute liver failure (ALF). In this study, we describe the clinical features, treatment, and outcomes of ALF due to BCS and compare our results with those in the published literature.

Biliary atresia: Indications and timing of liver transplantation and optimization of pretransplant care

Shikha S. Sundaram, Cara L. Mack, Amy G. Feldman, Ronald J. Sokol – 21 September 2016 – Biliary atresia (BA) is a progressive, fibro‐obliterative disorder of the intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts in infancy. The majority of affected children will eventually develop end‐stage liver disease and require liver transplantation (LT). Indications for LT in BA include failed Kasai portoenterostomy, significant and recalcitrant malnutrition, recurrent cholangitis, and the progressive manifestations of portal hypertension.

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