Syphilitic Hepatomegaly and Splenomegaly

Splenomegaly and hepatomegaly in an adolescent simulating Banti's syndrome.

Banti's disease, or Banti's syndrome as it is now generally called, is really a symptom complex, characterized by splenomegaly, and a progressive anaemia, with a tendency to gastro-oesophageal haemorrhage, and often accompanied by some degree of hepatic involvement. In Banti's description of the condition, he distinguished three stages:(1) Splenomegaly with an associated secondary anaemia. (2) ...

Splenomegaly, hypersplenism, and hereditary disorders with splenomegaly

Splenomegaly, sometimes of massive extent, occurs in a large number of hereditary diseases, some relatively prevalent and others, rare to ultra-rare. Because physicians are often unfamiliar with the less common disorders, patients may suffer because of diagnostic delay or diagnostic error and may undergo invasive, non-innocuous procedures such as splenectomy that are potentially avoidable were ...

Hepatomegaly and multiple liver lesions.

Accepted 21 January 1998 A 33-year-old man was referred for possible liver transplantation. The patient was initially diagnosed at birth when he presented with an enlarged liver and episodes of hypoglycaemia. A liver biopsy at the time showed pale hepatic cells by virtue of cytoplasmic granularity and periportal nuclear ballooning (figure 1). He was treated initially with dietary modifications ...

Hepatomegaly in neonates and children.

Pulsatile hepatomegaly in constrictive pericarditis.

In a study of 30 consecutive patients with constrictive pericarditis diagnosed by clinical, radiological, and echocardiographic criteria 21 (70%) were found to have pulsatile hepatomegaly. The pulsations were felt clinically and confirmed by external hepatic recordings. These pulsations conformed almost identically to the jugular venous pulsations in the neck. The hepatic pulsations disappeared...