Cholestasis in early infancy represents a diagnostic dilemma and most of these infants suffer either from extrahepatic biliary atresia or idiopathic neonatal hepatitis. Differentiation between the two conditions may be extremely difficult both clinically and biochemically, and a diagnostic liver biopsy is usually required. We report on a Sudanese infant who presented at the age of 4 weeks with ...

Sclerosing cholangitis and cholestatic jaundice secondary to metastatic disease is a rare complication. We report a rare case of secondary sclerosing cholangitis (SSC) due to lymphatic spread from ovarian cancer with complete resolution after chemotherapy. The diagnosis of SSC from metastatic ovarian cancer was clinically challenging, as endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography revealed i...

Fifty-three patients with drug-induced acute liver disease are reported. There were 35 females and 18 males with a mean age of 41 years. All but one patient had jaundice or hyperbilirubinaemia and 51 had abnormal liver enzymes. Histologically 38 patients (72%) had cholestatic injury while 15 had cytotoxic parenchymal damage. Methyldopa, chlorpropamide, chlorpromazine, halothane and the contrace...

Breast-fed infants have higher bilirubin level than formula-fed infants which is of undetermined etiology. The cholestatic effect of cytokines (e.g. IL-1beta, IL-6) is believed to result from the repression of genes that normally mediated the hepatic uptake, metabolism, and biliary excretion of bile salts and bilirubin. The present study aimed to assess the level of interleukin 1beta (IL1beta) ...

Hepatitis C recurrence is the main cause of graft loss in liver transplant patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HII). These patients have higher risk of fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis, which is the most severe type of hepatitis C recurrence. Until direct antiviral agents were released, only a minority of patients could be satisfactorily treated. We describe the successful tr...

BACKGROUND Severe cholestatic jaundice may complicate with bile cast nephropathy (BCN) causing severe acute kidney injury (AKI). In this study, we investigate BCN in severe falciparum malaria complicated with jaundice and AKI. METHODS This prospective study was conducted in a tertiary health care institution with high prevalence of malaria. A cohort of 110 patients with falciparum malaria com...

Results Female 6 years old, previously healthy, 3-year evolution gastric recurrent vomiting , abdominal pain intermittently mesogastrio, adding hiporexia, jaundice and increased waist circumference, with palpable mass in the right upper quadrant. Cholestatic syndrome, 857 Lipase, amylase 137 Immunoglobulin IgG subclass 4: 23mg/dL (5-6 years: 1-121 ). CT: dilatation of intra and extra hepatic bi...

Liver involvement with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is rarely reported. The majority of published cases suggest a cholestatic picture and obstructive jaundice at presentation. On the contrary, our patient presented with transaminitis without cholestasis. Elevated liver function tests persisted in our patient despite cholecystectomy; however, they normalized with chemotherapy administration, sug...

We herein report a case of hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL) incidentally found in 30-year-old man who came to the emergency department after an ankle trauma. At admission, laboratory tests revealed abnormal liver enzymes and pancytopenia, imaging showed mild hepatosplenomegaly. During hospitalization, patient’s clinical condition worsened rapidly, with concomitant increase cholestatic enzy...