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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants with Budd–Chiari syndrome (n = 60)

From: A study of the different parameters in acute and chronic Budd–Chiari syndrome

Gender

 Male

 Female

 

21 (35.0%)

39 (65.0%)

Age (years); mean ± SD

37.68 ± 12.78

Ethnicity

 Fars

 Turke

 Arabs

 Lurs

 Kurds

 Baloch

 Mazandarani

 Turkomen

 

22 (36.7 %)

15 (25.0%)

5 (8.3%)

5 (8.3%)

4 (6.7%)

4 (6.7%)

3 (5.0%)

2 (3.3%)

Past medical history

 Myeloproliferative neoplasms

 Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

 Myelodysplastic syndromes

 Antiphospholipid syndrome

 Protein C deficiency

 Lymphoma

 Positive human immunodeficiency virus

 Systemic lupus erythematosus

 Pseudotumor cerebri

 Diabetes mellitus

 

5 (8.3%)

3 (5.0%)

2 (3.3%)

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.7%)

1 (1.7%)

3 (5.0%)

1 (1.7%)

3 (5.0%)

Cigarette smoking

19 (31.7 %)

Alcohol use

12 20.0 (%)

Abdominal pain

46 (76.7%)

Jaundice

29 (48.3%)

Ascites

60 (100.0%)

Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis 1

5 (8.3%)

Gastrointestinal bleeding 1

16 (26.7%)

Encephalopathy

14 (23.3%)

Renal failure

12 (20.0%)

Hospital length of stay (days); mean ± SD

11.22 ± 7.98

Mortality

6 (10.0%)

  1. 1Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis was defined as ascitic fluid polymorphonuclear leukocyte count ≥ 250 cells/mm3 and positive ascitic fluid culture; gastrointestinal bleeding including hematemesis and melena