The Budd-Chiari syndrome caused by a zygomycete. A new pathogenesis of hepatic vein thrombosis

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1989 Oct;113(10):1171-4.

Abstract

The clinical history of a 60-year-old woman suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukemia with sudden deterioration and death is reported. The postmortem macroscopic and microscopic findings included pulmonary aspergillosis and pulmonary zygomycosis (mucormycosis). Hematogenous dissemination of the zygomycete causing cardiac zygomycosis, cerebral infarcts due to vascular occlusion by hyphae, and thrombosis of the major hepatic veins (Budd-Chiari syndrome) with submassive necrosis of the right liver lobe were also observed. To our knowledge, this is the second report dealing with occlusion of the hepatic veins caused by a fungus and the first study reporting the Budd-Chiari syndrome due to a mold of the subclass Zygomycetes.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Budd-Chiari Syndrome / etiology*
  • Budd-Chiari Syndrome / pathology
  • Female
  • Hepatic Veins / pathology
  • Humans
  • Liver / pathology
  • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / complications
  • Middle Aged
  • Mucormycosis / complications*
  • Mucormycosis / pathology