Non-uremic calciphylaxis in alcoholic hepatitis

Non-uremic calciphylaxis and Chagas disease.

a Laboratorio de Tecnología Inmunológica, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Paraje ‘‘El Pozo’’, Santa Fe, CP: 3000, Argentina b Servicio de Clínica Médica, Hospital J.B ‘‘Iturraspe’’, Bv. Pellegrini 3551, Santa Fe, CP: 3000, Argentina c Instituto de Inmunología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Santa Fe 31...

Alcoholic Hepatitis, Alcoholic Cirrhosis & Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)

Calciphylaxis in a Patient With Alcoholic Cirrhosis

A 38-year-old woman with alcoholic cirrhosis was admitted with a recurrent lower extremity rash. She had presented 1 year prior with a history of alcohol abuse, abdominal pain, fatigue, and a violaceous rash over the abdomen and proximal lower extremities. A skin biopsy showed multiple small vessels with calcification of the outer wall suggesting calciphylaxis. The patient was treated with sodi...

Alcoholic hepatitis

Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a clinical syndrome characterized by jaundice and liver failure that generally occurs after decades of harmful alcohol consumption. Less severe forms of acute AH (AAH) frequently respond to alcoholic abstinence; whereas severe AAHs are characterized by a poor prognosis: up to 40-60% of these patients die within six months. Glucocorticoids currently remain the mainsta...

Establishing prognosis in alcoholic hepatitis.