Active chronic hepatitis after chlorpromazine ingestion.

Chronic Hepatitis/Chronic Active Hepatitis in Dogs

Chronic Active Hepatitis

Our previous observations of highly significant increases in high titre antibodies to measles and rubella in patients with chronic active hepatitis have been extended and it has been shown that these reactions do not occur in other forms of liver disease. Significant increases in antibody titres to cytomegalovirus have also been found in patients with chronic active hepatitis (p<0001) and alcoh...

Sarcoidosis after interferon therapy for chronic active hepatitis C.

Sarcoidosis is characterized by multisystemic granulomatous lesions of unknown etiology. A 62-year-old woman developed sarcoidosis after treatment with alpha-2a interferon (IFN) for 24 weeks (total dose: 522 million units) for chronic hepatitis C. She developed complete atrioventricular block and multiple noncaseating granulomatous lesions in the lung. IFN therapy, which may disturb cellular im...

Involvement in Chronic Active Hepatitis

Rabbit liver plasma membranes were isolated and purified by using an aqueous twophase polymer system. Examination of these preparations with respect to electronmicroscopical appearance, distribution of marker enzymes and gross biochemical composition revealed them to be free from contamination by intracellular components. Sera from ten patients with chronic active hepatitis, four with and six w...

Active chronic hepatitis. Part I.

IN 1950 Waldenstrom first drew attention to the occurrence of a form of chronic liver disease in young people, predominantly adolescent girls, in whom there was moderate jaundice, enlargement of the liver and spleen, acne, amenorrhoea and hyperglobulinaemia. The occurrence of fever, arthralgia and Cushingoid features was noted (Kunkel et al 1951, Beam et al 1956), the LE cell phenomenon was rep...