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Budd-Chiari syndrome

etiology:

• thrombus (OCs, dehydration, septicemia, polycythemia vera, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria)
• congenital (web in hepatic v. or IVC)
• tumor or other mass (eg, hydatid cyst)
• sickle cell anemia
• trauma

• big liver
• ascites
• esophageal varices
• "hot" caudate lobe

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