Ultrasonography in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome – Diagnostic signs and prognostic implications

Purpose: We analysed sonomorphological signs of Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) and their potential for prognosis prediction in a single referral center over a 7-year period. Patients and methods: Forty-five consecutive patients were included. A uniform therapeutic strategy was applied, consisting of anticoagulation as well as a symptom and response-triggered use of recanalization and/or portosystemic shunt therapy and liver transplantation. Analysis included the frequencies of sonomorphological signs and their predictive value for diagnosis of BCS, mean values of laboratory and colour Doppler data in different thera…