Etiology, Management, and Outcome of the Budd-Chiari Syndrome

The Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is hepatic venous outflow obstruction. What is known about the syndrome is based on small studies of prevalent cases.To characterize the causes and treatment of incident BCS.Consecutive case series of patients with incident BCS, enrolled from October 2003 to October 2005 and followed until May 2006.Academic and nonacademic hospitals in France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands,...