Familial Budd-Chiari syndrome due to membranous obstruction of the right hepatic vein treated with transluminal angioplasty.

We report on a 30-yr-old man with Budd-Chiari syndrome due to right hepatic vein membranous obstruction. The patient's older brother also suffered from Budd-Chiari syndrome, and died after emergent portocaval shunt operation. To the best of our knowledge, familial occurrence of this syndrome has not been described before.