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Cirrhosis improvement to alcoholic liver fibrosis after passive abstinence.
- Source :
- BMJ Case Reports; Jan2014, p1-4, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- We present a rare case of long-term alcoholic liver disease that progressed from alcoholic liver fibrosis to alcoholic liver cirrhosis, and following passive abstinence, the patient's condition then improved to alcoholic liver fibrosis. A 70-year-old Japanese man who had consumed large amounts of alcohol since he was 20 years old received a liver biopsy for evaluation of liver dysfunction at the age of 48 in 1991. The biopsy indicated alcoholic liver fibrosis, stage 2. Eight years later, a second biopsy indicated alcoholic liver cirrhosis. The patient continued to drink until a cerebral haemorrhage in 2000 led to left hemiparesis. Thereafter, he had to accept passive abstinence. He then received follow-up liver biopsies in 2001 and 2002, both of which indicated improvement of the fibrosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ALCOHOLIC liver diseases
BIOPSY
ALCOHOL drinking
DISEASE progression
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1757790X
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- BMJ Case Reports
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 94142372
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-201618