Familial Hepatic Cirrhosis

Familial hepatic cirrhosis.

Interest has been revived in the aetiology of hepatic fibrosis in infants by the recent communications of Stokes, Berk, Malamut, Drake, Barondess, Bashe, Wolman, Farquhar, Bevan, Drummond, Maycock, Capps and Bennett (1954) and Dible, Hunt, Pugh, Steingold and Wood (1954). Dible et al. showed that hepatitis can occur during intra-uterine life with fatal results in the neonatal period, or perhaps...

Hepatic Cirrhosis

TIhC 0CCLPTen1CC inI h1o0Spitall Within a conmparatively shiort space of time of touIr unuISula.l examllples of cirrhosis of tihe li\-er in-younil-chil(lren has le(d us to Iake this comlnlLI1liunictionl. Disorders of tihe liver in chil(lhoo(l ha\ve iii recent N'ears not attracted imiuchi attentioni in tihis country, and we feel that tlhe mere ventilation of the suLb)ject, thIough,0LI we mXVn ha...

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Hepatic Cirrhosis

The Thymus in Hepatic Cirrhosis.

A post-mortem examination, in the case of a 34-year-old man dying suddenly from head injuries sustained in a road accident, showed early cirrhosis of the liver and associated splenomegaly 17 years after an attack of infective hepatitis. The histology of the thymus showed abnormal changes in the medulla, consisting of epithelial hyperplasia and the presence of lymph follicles with germinal centr...