Anticoagulating Budd-Chiari syndrome patients presenting with variceal bleed: A retrospective study.
Anand SharmaAshish GoelVinu MosesShyamkumar Nidugala KeshavaUday George ZachariahElwyn EliasChundamannil Eapen EapenPublished in: Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2020)
About one-tenth of BCS patients present with variceal bleed. On management with endoscopic ± endovascular therapy, followed by anticoagulation, variceal re-bleed in these patients were comparable with those in BCS patients presenting with ascites and survival was excellent at 1 and 5 years.