The relationship between the levels and function of endothelial progenitor cells and factor V Leiden and protein C deficiency in patients with primary Budd-Chiari syndrome.
This study aimed to evaluate the association of factor V Leiden (FVL), Janus kinase 2 (JAK2), prothrombin, and methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) mutations with primary BCS.
Associations of coagulation factor V Leiden and prothrombin G20210A mutations with Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
We report the case of a young patient with a coagulation disorder secondary to a mutation of factor V Leiden, who presented with upper digestive bleeding as the first manifestation of Budd Chiari syndrome and who also was associated with myocardial infarction in his past medical history.
We suggest checking resistance to activated protein C, rather than PCR analysis of factor V Leiden mutation in patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome after liver transplantation; the presence of the second does not effect clinical outcome.
Factor V Leiden was the most common risk factor, i.e., 14 of 53 (26.4%) in BCS cases followed by protein C, as compared with PVT cases, i.e., 2 of 33 (6.06%) and controls, i.e., 5 of 223 (2.3%).
The cause of the BCS still being unknown, in October 1996 we performed extensive laboratory investigations concerning states of thrombophilia and found moderately elevated IgG anticardiolipin antibodies (19.7 U/ml) and a resistance against activated protein C caused by heterozygosity for a point mutation of the factor V gene (1691G-->A; factor V Leiden).
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.