TY  - JOUR
AU  - Riva, Nicoletta
AU  - Ageno, Walter
PY  - 2017
TI  - Challenges in patients with splanchnic vein thrombosis
JF  - AME Medical Journal; Vol 2 (August 2017): Ame Medical Journal
Y2  - 2017
KW  - 
N2  - Splanchnic vein thrombosis (SVT) is a heterogeneous disease which involves thrombosis in different abdominal veins, such as portal, mesenteric, splenic and supra-hepatic veins. It also includes different subgroups of patients with peculiar characteristics, such as patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS), who have a poor prognosis and frequently need interventional procedures or liver transplants (1), and cirrhotic patients, who have a delicate haemostatic balance and a higher incidence of both thromboembolic and bleeding events (2). Given the peculiarities of the cirrhotic population and in order to create a more homogeneous cohort, most studies have focused only on non-malignant non-cirrhotic SVT (3-5).
UR  - https://amj.amegroups.org/article/view/3959