The following case is reported because of the occurrence of two different types of malignant neoplasm with typical portal cirrhosis of the liver. That a pathogenetic relationship exists between Laennec's cirrhosis and primary carcinoma of the liver is generally recognized. Whether the association of a peritoneal sarcoma with the cirrhosis in this case was more than a coincidence seemed an inter...

1. Cystine fed to young albino rats as 10 per cent of the diet resulted in: (a) Portal hemorrhagic necrosis, resembling eclampsia, within 3 or 4 days. (b) A high mortality rate. (c) Fatty infiltration of hepatic cells in all rats surviving the initial acute lesion. (d) Cirrhosis of the liver in rats surviving more than 2 weeks. 2. 5 per cent dietary cystine produced marked fatty infiltration of...

It is now known that the liver is often damaged in fibrocystic disease of the pancreas. Bodian (1952) found patchy portal fibrosis and an increase in bileduct structures, which he termed focal biliary fibrosis, in half of the 50 cases in his series in which histological sections of liver were available. This lesion is found most often and most severely in older children, but Claireaux (1956) ha...

background: to glean insights into the relationship among hepatitis b virus (hbv) genotype/subgenotypes, a1762t/g1764a mutations and advanced liver disease such as liver cirrhosis (lc) and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) in southeast china. methods: a case-control study was performed, consisting of chronic hepatitis b (chb) patients (n=160), lc patients (n=150), and hcc patients (n=156). fluores...

The prevalence of liver cirrhosis in 133 Romanians as obtained from a published necropsy series was compared with the biopsy pattern seen among 138 Nigerians of the Igbo ethnic group. It was found that the Romanian peak age group of 5059 years was 2 decades older than the Nigerian peak of 30-39 years. It is argued that, although one series was from necropsies and the other from biopsies, their ...

INTRODUCTION Primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease that tends to progress to fibrosis and cirrhosis with hepatic failure. Primary biliary cirrhosis is often associated with other non- hepatic autoimmune diseases. An association with rheumatoid arthritis has been suggested to coexist in 1.8% to 5.6% of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis, but data supporting this association are...

Infections in patients with cirrhosis are common among those who develop variceal hemorrhage. Prophylactic antimicrobial treatment with third generation cephalosporins is recommended in patients with advanced cirrhosis and gastrointestinal hemorrhage. However no infectious source is identified in up to 50% of patients with cirrhosis and clinical sepsis. We report the first case of Paracoccus ye...