Sa1516 – Alcoholic Cirrhosis is Associated with Higher In-Hospital Mortality Compared to Non-Alcoholic Cirrhosis

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

Spur cell anemia associated with alcoholic cirrhosis.

A 56-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with jaundice, massive ascites, hepatic encephalopathy and an intramuscular hematoma. She had severe liver dysfunction with a total bilirubin level of 9.0 mg/dL, indirect bilirubin level of 6.9 mg/dL, albumin level of 2.8 g/dL and prothrombin ratio of 43%. Her hemoglobin level was 6.8 g/dL, and a peripheral blood smear showed the presence of a la...

Assessment of autonomic nervous system function in patients with non-alcoholic cirrhosis

Automatic dysfunction may contribute to the hemodynamic disturbances in cirrhosis. Tests of autonomic function were performed in 31 patients with non-alcoholic cirrhosis and 30 healthy subjects. Patients were divided into 3 groups according to child- Pugh,s classification ( A.B.C). The patients with moderate and severe cirrhosis( child B,C) had significant parasympathetic disturbance ( in the v...

Constitutional factors in alcoholic cirrhosis.

The different sensitivity of the male and the female liver is well established, but there is an obvious difference in male livers as well. One possible explanation for these differences might be the existence of genetic peculiarities among patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. In the early twentieth, Chvostek in Vienna was the first to draw attention to a constitutional element which he believed t...

Ventilation-perfusion inequality in patients with non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis.

Ventilation-perfusion relationships were studied in patients with non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Spirometry was essentially normal but the transfer factor of the lung (DLCO) was reduced by an average 34% of predicted. Arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) ranged from normal down to 6.9 kPa. Varying degrees of ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) abnormalities (multiple inert gas elimination technique) were ob...