%0 Journal Article %T Challenges in patients with splanchnic vein thrombosis %A Riva, Nicoletta %A Ageno, Walter %J AME Medical Journal %D 2017 %B 2017 %9 %! Challenges in patients with splanchnic vein thrombosis %K %X 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). %U https://amj.amegroups.org/article/view/3959 %V 2 %P %@ 2520-0518