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Dulger AC, Kemik O, Selvi F, et al. Hepatic Encephalopathy in Connection With Budd-Chiari Syndrome due to Infection With Echinococcus Multilocularis: A Case Report. Gastroenterology Res. 2011;4(3):127-130doi: 10.4021/gr306e.
Dulger, A. C., Kemik, O., Selvi, F., Begenik, H., Emre, H., & Erdur, F. M. (2011). Hepatic Encephalopathy in Connection With Budd-Chiari Syndrome due to Infection With Echinococcus Multilocularis: A Case Report. Gastroenterology research, 4(3), 127-130. https://doi.org/10.4021/gr306e
Dulger, Ahmet Cumhur, et al. "Hepatic Encephalopathy in Connection With Budd-Chiari Syndrome due to Infection With Echinococcus Multilocularis: A Case Report." Gastroenterology research vol. 4,3 (2011): 127-130. doi: https://doi.org/10.4021/gr306e
Dulger AC, Kemik O, Selvi F, Begenik H, Emre H, Erdur FM. Hepatic Encephalopathy in Connection With Budd-Chiari Syndrome due to Infection With Echinococcus Multilocularis: A Case Report. Gastroenterology Res. 2011 Jun;4(3):127-130. doi: 10.4021/gr306e. Epub 2011 May 20. PMID: 27942328; PMCID: PMC5139819.
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Gastroenterology Res. 2011 Jun;4(3):127-130. doi: 10.4021/gr306e. Epub 2011 May 20.

Hepatic Encephalopathy in Connection With Budd-Chiari Syndrome due to Infection With Echinococcus Multilocularis: A Case Report.

Gastroenterology research

Ahmet Cumhur Dulger, Ozgur Kemik, Fatih Selvi, Huseyin Begenik, Habib Emre, Fatih Mehmet Erdur

Affiliations

  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Medical Faculty, Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey.
  2. Department of General Surgery, Medical Faculty, Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey.
  3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Faculty, Yuzuncu Yil University,Van, Turkey.
  4. Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty, Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey.

PMID: 27942328 PMCID: PMC5139819 DOI: 10.4021/gr306e

Abstract

Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a hepatic venous outflow block generally resulting from disorders affecting hepatic venous system. Elevated hepatic venous pressure results in portal hypertension. BCS may also cause hepatic encephalopathy. Echinococcus multilocularis is a tapeworm parasite and the natural course of the disease may affect liver parenchyma as well as hepatic venous tree. It is the most terrible parasitic disease of the liver and is easily confused with hepatic malignancies. Albendazole therapy may suppress disease progression. Alveolar echinococcosis of the liver rarely causes Budd-Chiari syndrome-related hepatic encephalopathy (HE). We report a rare case of alveolar echinococcosis-related BCS with HE, who was successfully managed by rifaximin and albendazole.

Keywords: Alveolar echinococcosis; Budd-Chiari syndrome; Hepatic encephalopathy

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