Budd-Chiari syndrome is the condition caused by occlusion of the hepatic veins.
They receive the blood mixed in the liver sinusoids and return it to circulation via the hepatic vein.
The central veins coalesce into hepatic veins, which leave the liver.
The middle hepatic vein also demarcates the true right and left lobes.
Blood backs up into the systemic venous system, including the hepatic vein.
The blood leaves the liver to the heart in the hepatic veins.
She had an extra hepatic vein, located, very unfortunately, on the back side of the liver.
Occlusion of the hepatic veins is known as Budd-Chiari syndrome.
Extension of tumor thrombus above the level of the hepatic veins.