The diagnosis of cryptogenic cirrhosis is an exclusion diagnosis. It has become far less frequent over the last decades , but it still effects a significant number of patients. Many previously unknown chronic liver disease entities were described in the second half of the last century, including chronic viral hepatitis B, C and D, along with refined criteria for diagnosing autoimmune hepatitis ...

Introduction and objective. The deficiency of the Lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) activity has been related to cirrhosis due non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Many classified as cryptogenic are evolution liver disease fatty liver. objective present study was evaluate lysosomal in patients with any etiology establish whether low levels correlate origin or NASH. Methods. Was an analytical cohort ...

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is known to cause epidemic outbreaks as well as sporadic disease in many parts of the world. Clinical presentation of hepatitis E varies from acute icteric viral hepatitis to severe disease with fulminant hepatic failure, and anicteric infection (no jaundice but with ALT elevation). According to available data HEV infection does not lead to chronic liver failur...

the liver transplantation program was established at shiraz nemazee hospital in 1993. shortage of cadaver organ supply due to various social and legal issues urged us to develop a living-related liver transplantation (lrlt) program. so far 7 (6 males, 1 female) living-related liver transplantations have been performed at this center. the mean age of patients was 8.21 years (+/- 4.16), with a ra...

Cirrhosis is defined as the advanced stages of hepatic fibrosis, with characteristic distortion of the hepatic architecture in addition to numerous regenerative nodules. Cirrhosis without an apparent cause is labeled cryptogenic (1, 2). Since metabolic syndrome was identified as a distinct medical entity, and insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia have been addressed as its fundamental pathoph...

INTRODUCTION There are several disorders that cause hepatic cirrhosis. However, if there is no known cause for cirrhosis, it is called cryptogenic cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is believed to be irreversible in its late stages. In these cases, liver transplantation is the only solution. CASE PRESENTATION The study case was a 29-year-old man, admitted to the hospital four years ago due to esophageal va...

Background and Aim: Celiac Disease (CeD) is a multisystemic disease in addition to the small intestine, also affects liver. The spectrum of liver involvement CeD includes cryptogenic hypertransaminasaemia/cirrhosis, autoimmune diseases vascular like Non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis (NCPF). There lack systematic study on prevalence patients with NCPF. Methods: All new biopsy-proven NCPF reporting c...

conclusions in our study, only hbv genotype d was found among all the positive hbsag and occult hbv infection. moreover, high prevalence (40.7%) of occult hbv infection was determined among patients suffered from cryptogenic cirrhosis. results eleven (40.7%) out of 27 hbv cryptogenic cirrhosis and all 11 hbsag-positive patients were positive for hbv dna. the seroprevalences of hepatitis b virus...