Veno-occlusive Disease of Liver

The budd-chiari syndrome in a patient with hepatic gummata

“…Apart from the usual supportive measures and control of ascites with dietary salt restriction, more radical surgical attempts to relieve portal hypertension and ascites have frequently been made (Thompson, 1947;Blakemore, 1948 ;Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, Cantwell, and Mehigan, 1956;Norris, 1956;Kalk, 1955), but generally without success. The present case echoes this experience.…”