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. 2014 Sep 13;9:104. doi: 10.1186/s13023-014-0153-1

Table 3.

Main treatments of BCS patients with and without BD

BCS with BD (n =14) BCS without BD (n =92) p
Anticoagulation, n (%) 14 (100%) 92 (100%) 1.00
Endovascular treatment, n (%) 2 (14%) 17 (18%) 1.00
Thrombolysis, n (%) 3 (21%) 1 (1%) 0.007
TIPS, n (%) 0 (0%) 28 (30%) 0.019
Surgical decompressiona, n (%) 1 (8%) 7 (8%) 1.00
OLT, n (%) 1 (7%) 15 (16.3%) 0.69

Abbreviations: BCS Budd-Chiari Syndrome, BD Behcet’s disease, TIPS Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, OLT Orthotopic liver transplantation.

aData on surgical decompression was available for 13 patients in BCS patients with BD.

Bold indicates significant differences.