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  • Title: Acute Budd-Chiari syndrome treated by liver transplantation in a woman homozygous for factor V Leiden.
    Author: Blanshard C, Pasi J, Rolles K, Davidson B, Jain S, Burroughs A.
    Journal: Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol; 1996 Sep; 8(9):925-7. PubMed ID: 8889463.
    Abstract:
    We describe the first case of Budd-Chiari syndrome due to homozygosity for factor V Leiden resulting in resistance to activated protein C. This is now recognized as the most common procoagulant disorder, and may account for many cases of Budd-Chiari syndrome previously though to be idiopathic or due to a latent myeloproliferative disorder. A further unique feature of this case is that the patient required orthotopic liver transplantation following failure of portacaval shunting and progressive hepatic necrosis. We demonstrated that liver transplantation resulted in correction of the serum coagulation abnormality; however, it is unlikely to have cured the disorder as platelet factor V would still be of the Leiden phenotype.
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