five years survival for decompensated cryptogenic cirrhosis has been reported less than 14%. the patient is a 70 years old man who had cryptogenic cirrhosis since the last 22 years after splenectomy. he had episodes of upper gi bleeding and ascitis at least for the last 17 years. he is still alive and is doing his daily work appropriately.

CONTEXT In about 10% of patients with chronic liver disease, it is not possible to identify an etiologic factor. These cases are called cryptogenic cirrhosis. Currently, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is being considered as a possible etiologic factor for a significant segment of patients that presents with cryptogenic cirrhosis. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of risk factors for N...

conclusions the diagnosis of the high frequency of solitary ttv and co-infection with hbv, in both liver transplanted patients with cryptogenic and determined cirrhosis, emphasized on the importance of ttv infection in the development of cirrhosis, especially in the cases of cryptogenic ones, prompting for further studies the confirm this agent in the etiology of determined cirrhosis. results t...

Cryptogenic cirrhosis (CC) is defined as cirrhosis occurring in an individual without an identifiable cause of liver disease, such as excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis infection, hemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, chronic intake of medications that could induce cirrhosis, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson's disease...

background chronic hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection has a broad spectrum of manifestation, ranging from silent carrier state to advanced cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. the persistence of hbv dna in serum and hepatocytes of the cirrhotic patient could be detected by molecular techniques in spite of negative hbv serologic markers. conclusions the prevalence of obi was relatively high in...

conclusions in this patient, traditional medicine treatment improved the patient's general well-being, hematopoiesis and portal hypertension. furthermore, it improved his quality of life, although it had no effect on his liver function. we recommend more clinical trials on therapeutic effects of iranian traditional medicine on cryptogenic cirrhosis. introduction there are several disorders that...

Introduction: Celiac disease (CD) is a disease that involves many organs including the liver and is caused by autoimmune enteropathy. We aimed to compare the CD frequency between the cryptogenic cirrhosis and cirrhosis due to hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Materials and methods: Patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis (n=83), HCV related cirrhosis (n=42) and HBV related cirrho...

background: we aimed to determine the frequency of liver copper storage diseases in iranian children with cryptogenic chronic liver disease (cld). materials and methods: one-hundred and twenty children (52 girls, 70 boys; age range: 3 months-14 years) with cld who attended children's medical center in tehran, iran during the years 1997 through 1999, were enrolled. all viral, metabolic and autoi...

the coexistence of waldenstromâ´s macrglobulinemia and cryptogenic cirrhosis has been rarely reported.we describe a 72-year-old man with compensated cryptogenic cirrhosis whose major clinical presentation was hyperviscosity syndrome. serum protein electrophoresis revealed the presence of an igm-kappa spike. lambda light chain was found in urine. bone marrow biopsy was performed, which showed at...

BACKGROUND Cirrhosis is one of the most severe liver complications, with multiple etiologies. The torque teno virus (TTV), also known as transfusion transmitted virus, which has a high incidence in the world population, is one of the possible increasing risk factors in patients with idiopathic fulminant hepatitis and cryptogenic cirrhosis. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate soli...