Reviewer's report 
 Acute partial Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis in cytomegalovirus primary Title: 
infection: Case report 
 3  20 November 2005 Version: Date: 
 Ioannis Koutroubakis Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors report a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis in a patient with 
cytomegalovirus infection. This is a rare association and so far the association of Budd-Chiari 
syndrome and CMV infection has not been described in the literature. It is an interesting and well 
written paper.------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
The thrombophilic evaluation should be reported in more detail and the values of the examined 
parameters should be provided. 
For the exclusion of an early hepatocellular carcinoma the value of alpha fetoprotein should be 
provided.------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the 
author can be trusted to correct) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after minor essential revisions What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research Level of interest: 
interests 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests 
Reviewer's report 
 Acute partial Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis in cytomegalovirus primary Title: 
infection: Case report 
 3  20 November 2005 Version: Date: 
 Ioannis Koutroubakis Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors report a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis in a patient with 
cytomegalovirus infection. This is a rare association and so far the association of Budd-Chiari 
syndrome and CMV infection has not been described in the literature. It is an interesting and well 
written paper.------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
The thrombophilic evaluation should be reported in more detail and the values of the examined 
parameters should be provided. 
For the exclusion of an early hepatocellular carcinoma the value of alpha fetoprotein should be 
provided.------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the 
author can be trusted to correct) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after minor essential revisions What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research Level of interest: 
interests 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests 
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report 
 Acute partial Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis in cytomegalovirus primary Title: 
infection: Case report 
 3  20 November 2005 Version: Date: 
 Ioannis Koutroubakis Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
The authors report a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis in a patient with 
cytomegalovirus infection. This is a rare association and so far the association of Budd-Chiari 
syndrome and CMV infection has not been described in the literature. It is an interesting and well 
written paper.------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can 
be reached) 
The thrombophilic evaluation should be reported in more detail and the values of the examined 
parameters should be provided. 
For the exclusion of an early hepatocellular carcinoma the value of alpha fetoprotein should be 
provided.------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the 
author can be trusted to correct) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after minor essential revisions What next?: 
 An article whose findings are important to those with closely related research Level of interest: 
interests 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests 
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