- thanks for the literature search

[Guest guest]

I thought that I would never need your literature search since

Lonnie has had his liver transplant (and is doing pretty well, not

back to work, though).

but...

Lonnie's aunt called me to tell me about a friend of hers who died

immediately following surgery to repair some internal bleeding. The

original surgery was to remove some ulcers. When the surgeon opened

him up, he found bleeding and couldn't figure it out (this friend

was at a very small hospital). He was referred to a Regional

Hospital, who then referred him to Chicago.

The wife was told by the Chicago doctors that her husband had Budd-

Chiari syndrome and had he not had the original surgery for the

ulcers, they would have never found it. As I understand it, there

are no early symptoms, by the time there are signs, it looks more

like a heart problem.

I have sent the link to your literature site so Lonnie's aunt can

read up on it and hopefully understand what happened. She had come

to me asking about it because the wife was asking if this syndrome

had ever been mentioned during Lonnie's illness.

Thanks, again for making this available!

Kathy

wife of Lonnie

ltx 6/04