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Síndrome de Budd-Chiari

Última revisão: 15 Nov 2025
Última atualização: 21 Feb 2024

Resumo

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • dor abdominal no quadrante superior direito
  • hepatomegalia
  • ascite
  • icterícia
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Other diagnostic factors

  • esplenomegalia
  • hemorragia digestiva
  • edema de membros inferiores
  • colaterais venosas do tronco
  • encefalopatia hepática
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Risk factors

  • sexo feminino
  • doenças mieloproliferativas (DMP)
  • doenças trombofílicas
  • uso de pílula contraceptiva oral
  • gestação e período pós-parto imediato
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • rastreamento para trombofilia
  • ultrassonografia com Doppler pulsado e colorido
  • TFHs
  • ureia e creatinina
  • perfil de coagulação
  • Hemograma completo
  • mutação JAK2
  • citometria de fluxo para células sanguíneas com deficiência de CD55 e CD59
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Tests to consider

  • gradiente de albumina soro-ascite (GASA)
  • proteína ascítica total
  • tomografia computadorizada (TC) abdominal
  • ressonância nuclear magnética (RNM) do abdome
  • venografia hepática
  • angiografia por ressonância magnética tridimensional com contraste
  • biópsia hepática transjugular
  • biópsia da medula óssea
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

primária: não fulminante

primária: fulminante

síndrome de Budd-Chiari secundária

Contributors

Authors

Soha Saoud Abdel Moneim, MD, PhD
Soha Saoud Abdel Moneim

Lecturer of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Assiut University

Assiut

Egypt

Disclosures

SSAM declares that she has no competing interests.

Vijay H. Shah, MD
Vijay H. Shah

Professor of Medicine

Physiology and Cancer Cell Biology

Mayo Clinic

Rochester

MN

Disclosures

VHS is the author of studies referenced in this topic. VHS has been reimbursed by the following organisations for Advisory Board Meetings: Akaza Bioscience, AgomAb Therapeutics, Generon Shanghai, Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Resolution Therapeutics, Ltd., and Surrozen. Dr. Shah has been reimbursed by the following organisations for general consulting: Ambys Medicines, Durect Corporation, Genfit SA, HepaRegeniX, Korro Bio, Inc., Novartis Pharma AG, and Seal Rock Therapeutics, Inc..

Peer reviewers

Vikas Gupta, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Yale School of Medicine

Department of Medicine

Section of Digestive Diseases

New Haven

CT

Disclosures

VG declares that he has no competing interests.

Philip Newsome, PhD, FRCPE

Senior Lecturer in Hepatology & Honorary Consultant Physician

Liver Research Group

Institute of Biomedical Research

The Medical School

University of Birmingham

Birmingham

UK

Disclosures

PN declares that he has no competing interests.

Muhammad Dawwas, MRCP

Specialist Registrar

Liver Unit

Addenbrooke's Hospital

Cambridge

UK

Disclosures

Not disclosed.

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References

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Key articles

Northup PG, Garcia-Pagan JC, Garcia-Tsao G, et al. Vascular liver disorders, portal vein thrombosis, and procedural bleeding in patients with liver disease: 2020 practice guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Hepatology. 2021 Jan;73(1):366-413.Full text  Abstract

de Franchis R, Bosch J, Garcia-Tsao G, et al. Baveno VII - Renewing consensus in portal hypertension. J Hepatol. 2022 Apr;76(4):959-74.Full text  Abstract

Valla DC. The diagnosis and management of the Budd-Chiari syndrome: consensus and controversies. Hepatology. 2003;38:793-803. Abstract

Menon KV, Shah V, Kamath PS. The Budd-Chiari syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2004;350:578-585. Abstract

Reference articles

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  • Síndrome de Budd-Chiari images
  • Differentials

    • Síndrome da obstrução sinusoidal (SOS) (doença veno-oclusiva)
    • Insuficiência hepática fulminante devido a outras etiologias
    • Hepatopatia congestiva
    More Differentials
  • Guidelines

    • Baveno VII – Renewing consensus in portal hypertension
    • Budd-Chiari syndrome: consensus guidance of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver
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