This is a fairly rare disease. Badda-Chiari syndrome is diagnosed in one person for one hundred thousand. The disease is associated with a malfunction of the liver. Most often it is diagnosed in middle-aged women. But from time to time with the disease, younger patients also come across.
Causes of Badda-Chiari Disease
Badda-Chiari syndrome - obstruction of the hepatic veins. With this disease, the veins are narrowed, because of which the normal blood flow in the liver is disturbed. At the same time, the body can not function properly.
The cause of the disease can be some congenital anomalies of the hepatic veins. The following factors contribute to the development of the syndrome:
- injuries;
- tumors;
- cirrhosis;
- hepatitis;
- hepatocellular carcinoma;
- peritonitis;
- vasculitis;
- pregnancy;
- childbirth;
- pericarditis;
- thrombosis;
- some autoimmune diseases;
- polycythemia .
Budda-Chiari syndrome can develop on the background of long-term use of contraceptives or after surgical intervention. Sometimes the disease appears after pregnancy and childbirth.
Symptoms of Badd-Chiari Syndrome
Distinguish between acute and chronic forms of the disease. The latter occurs in most cases. Manifestations of the disease can vary depending on its shape. So, for example, the chronic illness of Budda-Chiari can long remain unnoticed. And at later stages there are such symptoms as nausea, vomiting, painful sensations in the right hypochondrium. Liver
The acute form of Budd Chiari is manifested by symptoms such as severe pain and vomiting. When the disease spreads to the lower hollow veins, the patient may become swollen legs, a vascular reticulum appears on the anterior abdominal wall. The disease develops very quickly, and within a few days the patient can be diagnosed with ascites.
Characteristic for most liver diseases, the symptom - jaundice - is rare in the Buddha-Chiari syndrome.
Treatment of Badda-Chiari syndrome
In the early stages, medical therapy is contemplated, involving the use of diuretics and coagulants, but it does not always give positive results.
Typically, Badda-Chiari syndrome is treated surgically in a hospital setting. The best option is the application of anastomosis. In particularly difficult cases, liver transplantation may even be required.