Hepatic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and liver transplantation.

Hepatic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and liver transplantation.

OBJECTIVES To document the variety of liver diseases and the clinical picture of hepatic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) complicated by arthritis and to report the effects of successful liver transplantation on this disabling condition. METHODS Seven patients with severe liver disease (two biliary atresia, two primary sclerosing cholangitis, one Wilson's disease, one primary biliary cirrh...

Hepatic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and liver transplantation

management such as analgesia or intraarticular injection of steroids. A recent article' highlighted the benefits of successful liver transplantation in producing remission of this painful arthritis. We report a case of HOA which developed nine years after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). A 44 year old man presented in February 1993 with three week history of pain and swelling of his wris...

Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy associated to liver cirrhosis.

The patient, a 45-year-old male, was referred to the rheumatology clinic due to diffuse joint pain on the wrists and knees. The patient was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis and severe hepatopulmonary syndrome. Physical examination showed swelling of the knees and wrists (arthritis) and clubbing. The X-rays requested showed periosteal thickening observed continuously, in a diaphysometaphysiary loc...

Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and AIDS.

Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy related to end stage cholestatic cirrhosis: reversal after liver transplantation.

A case is reported of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy with recovery after a liver graft in a young man with end stage cholestatic cirrhosis related to non-Wilsonian copper overload. To our knowledge this is the first case in the literature illustrating the curative role of liver grafting on hypertrophic osteoarthropathy associated with chronic cholestatic liver disease.