Feifei Lu, Siqi Jia, Huiyuan Lu, Haonan Zhao, Zhe Li, Yuzheng Zhuge, Fernando Gomes Romeiro, Nahum Mendez-Sanchez, Xingshun Qi
Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) and sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS) are two major vascular disorders of the liver, of which both can cause portal hypertension related complications, but their locations of obstruction are different. BCS refers to the obstruction from the hepatic vein to the junction between the inferior vena cava and right atrium, which is the major etiology of post-sinusoidal portal hypertension; by comparison, SOS is characterized as the obstruction at the level of hepatic sinusoids and terminal venulae, which is a cause of sinusoidal portal hypertension...
November 25, 2023: Current Medical Research and Opinion