Color Doppler imaging findings in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome: correlation with venographic findings.
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Roentgen Ray Society in American Journal of Roentgenology
- Vol. 161 (2) , 307-312
- https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.161.2.8333368
Abstract
This study was undertaken to evaluate color Doppler imaging findings in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome and to compare these findings with results of venography.In a prospective study, 21 patients with proved Budd-Chiari syndrome had color Doppler imaging. Sonographic evaluations ware performed to detect appropriately directed flow in the hepatic veins, portal vein, and inferior vena cava. Intrahepatic collaterals were characterized when present. Results of color Doppler imaging were compared with those of angiography in 20 patients. Color Doppler images of the hepatic veins were also obtained in a reference group (20 control subjects, 20 patients with hepatomegaly, and 20 patients with cirrhosis).Color Doppler imaging showed abnormalities of anatomy or flow in one or more of the main hepatic veins in all 21 patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome. Commonly observed abnormalities were visualization of a hepatic vein on real-time sonograms that had no flow or retrograde flow on color Doppler sonograms (11 ca...Keywords
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