A team of doctors from the Institute of Medical Sciences, one of the six institutes at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, in a first performed a surgical procedure to cure a patient suffering from Budd-Chiari Syndrome, a serious condition of the liver.
Budd-Chiari Syndrome is a condition in which the hepatic veins are blocked or narrowed by a mass of blood cells. The blockage results the blood to back up into the liver due to which it grows larger.
