Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0023890 (cirrhosis)
 42,195 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Fifty-nine case of ascites not due to cardiac or renal disease were subjected to clinical, endoscopic and laboratory investigations, including bacteriology and histopathology. Provisional diagnosis divided the cases into 38 patients with ascites as the main finding, and 21 patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites. After investigation, the final diagnosis was totally different from the provisional in 15 cases. Predominance of tuberculosis of the peritoneum per se or in addition to liver cirrhosis was striking, and its documentation was possible only through laparoscopy and biopsy. Oesophagoscopy, a simple procedure, revealing varices in undiagnosed ascites, points to liver cirrhosis. Laparoscopy confirms the diagnosis and reveals other additional factors for ascites as malignancy or tuberculosis.
 ...
PMID:Endoscopic diagnosis of ascites in Assiut province, upper Egypt. 622 21

Multiple hepatic disease is unusual. An association between tuberculosis of the liver and cirrhosis has occasionally been described, but the occurrence of hepatoma and tuberculous hepatitis has not been reported previously. Clinically it may be difficult to distinguish hepatic tuberculosis from cirrhosis or hepatoma, and diagnostic procedures may not be helpful. We report a patient with tuberculous hepatitis, hepatoma and cirrhosis in whom the diagnosis alternated between the last two conditions until autopsy finally revealed the presence of all three.
 ...
PMID:Simultaneous hepatic tuberculosis, cirrhosis and hepatoma. A case report. 632 Apr 73

Peritoneoscopy in medical cases remains largely unpopular in the USA and the UK. In many developing countries there is often a heavy demand on medical facilities and the rapid diagnosis of intra-abdominal problems is of major importance. We present a series of 193 patients in whom peritoneoscopy was carried out during a 2 1/2-year period. Eighty-six per cent (166) of examinations yielded information of positive diagnostic value. The most common diagnoses were hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cirrhosis, bilharzial fibrosis and peritoneal tuberculosis. The peritoneoscopic appearances in the various lesions are illustrated and discussed. Peritoneoscopy is a safe procedure and its value in a developing country is great, both in terms of economy of man-hours employed and, more particularly, of diagnostic yield.
 ...
PMID:Peritoneoscopy in a developing country. 644 62

The amoebic liver abscess, the peritoneal tuberculosis and the "tropical splenomegaly" belong to diseases which are frequent in warm countries but single cases appear also in moderate climate by intercontinental communications. False diagnoses especially in the first both can lead to severe rsp. fatal consequenses. Therefore experiences are dealed with, which have been gained within nearly one year in Ethiopia and which shall illustrate the diagnostic procedures under field conditions in warm countries as well as under conditions of modern hospitals in moderate climates. Amoebic liver abscess is quickly detected and confirmed by sonography and immunodiagnostic. Contrary to it in the fields there is the puncture by means of a i. v.-needle often not only the sole diagnostic but also the first and sometimes life-saving therapeutic procedure in advanced cases. It allows X-ray in double contrast technique if equipment is available. In suitable cases such approved technique shall be used also in modern clinics disposing of methods like sonography and computerized tomography. Concerning peritoneal tuberculosis our examinations agreed with the opinion of literature that the laparoscopy seems to be the most suitable method for quickly detection and safe discrimination from decompensated portal hypertension in liver cirrhosis. By the way the "cope needle" are mentioned which is distributed in warm countries for searching for peritoneal tuberculosis by performance of a blind peritoneal biopsy. It is easier than laparoscopy but not so efficient. - In this connection 31 cases examined by laparoscopy are presented in a table in order to give an impression on further indications to laparoscopy existing in such areas of warm countries.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
 ...
PMID:Remarks on gastroenterologic diagnostics of amoebic liver abscess, peritoneal tuberculosis and tropical splenomegaly. 649 27

A patient with cavitary tuberculosis, hepatic cirrhosis, bullous skin lesions over sun-exposed surfaces, disorientation, and a chronic, as well as recent, history of illicit alcohol consumption was found to have acute variegate porphyria by characteristic fecal and urinary porphyrin studies. Elevated levels of lead and arsenic were found in serum and urine without evidence of heavy metal storage in hair and liver. We suspect that the variegate porphyria was precipitated by the ingestion of heavy metals contained in illicit alcohol. In a patient with disorientation, bullous skin lesions, and a history of illicit alcohol ingestion, one must consider heavy metal intoxication and secondary porphyrin abnormalities.
 ...
PMID:Variegate porphyria and heavy metal poisoning from ingestion of "moonshine". 687 66

In the years between 1967 and 1978, Billroth I-type antrectomy and truncal vagotomy were performed in 44, and primary gastric resection in 19 cases of perforated duodenal ulcer. It was found that in the case of perforated ulcer causing extensive scarring, stenosis or penetration, antrectomy is not more complicated than pyloroplasty. In the absence of other local lesions and mainly in high-risk patients with cirrhosis, diabetes, chronic renal disease, tuberculosis, etc. excision of the perforated duodenal ulcer, pyloroplasty according to Finney and vagotomy were performed (48 operations), while in purulent peritonitis (8 patients) suturing only was applied. Bearing in mind the above aspects, the authors lost none of their patients. Final and similar results can be achieved with performed (in 48 cases), while in the case of purulent peritonitis only suturing was applied in 8 patients. None of the patients was lost. Similar results can be achieved with emergency antrectomy and vagotomy as under elective conditions. In the majority of cases the perforated duodenum can be operated upon in such a way which will abolish the perforation and ensure a final healing of the ulcer.
 ...
PMID:Treatment of perforated duodenal ulcer by vagotomy-associated antrectomy. 729 9

Anatomopathologic diagnosis were studied in a series of 500 clinical autopsies (440 adults and 9 children between 1 and 14 years old). Cancer was the most frequent cause of death (27.7%) followed by infectious processes (26.9%) divided between respiratory infections (14.3%), non-respiratory (8.8%) and tuberculosis (3.8%). Vascular disorders accounted for 25.2% and cirrhosis for 10.2%. The diagnosis of cancer were incorrect in 28.8%, of those, 16% were over-assessed and 12.8% under-assessed. Cancer was multiple in 2.7% of all cases, hepatic cancer was found in 17.6% of cirrhosis cases and in 11% of all cases, thromboembolism of different degree was seen.
 ...
PMID:[Analysis of a series of 500 clinical post mortem studies. II. Basic diagnosis (author's transl)]. 732 38

Mortality through 1975 in US Army veterans released from prisoner-of-war camps following World War II (Europe, Pacific) and the Korean conflict and in several non-prisoner groups is compared using death rates and standard mortality ratios. The World War II Pacific and Korean conflict experience reveal increased risk of dying among former prisoners which, though diminishing with time, persist for 9 and 13 years, respectively. Mortality from tuberculosis and from trauma contributes to the increase among Pacific ex-prisoners, while for Korea the increase is limited to trauma. An excess of deaths due to cirrhosis of the liver in all three former prisoner groups appeared from about the 10th follow-up year. While the reported mortality experience for World War II spans 30 calendar years and for Korea 22 years, no evidence of increased aging among former prisoners of war is seen in mortality from the chronic and degenerative diseases.
 ...
PMID:Follow-up studies of world war II and Korean conflict prisoners. III. Mortality to January 1, 1976. 735 82

As a part of a routine yellow fever surveillance program going on in the south of Bahia State, Brazil, liver fragments were obtained through postmortem viscerotomy from 702 individuals who died after presenting acute febrile illness from 1981 up till 1991. Instead of being only screened for the presence of yellow fever, the liver tissue was thoroughly evaluated by histopathology. More than a third of the cases exhibited marked and diffuse steatosis occurring in malnourished infants and young children. Hepatic fibrosis, granulomatous disease compatible with disseminated tuberculosis, advanced schistosomiasis, chronic alcoholic injury, chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis were also frequently observed. A miscellaneous group of hepatic pathological processes were also recognized, which included such diverse entities as Hodgkin's disease, glycogenosis, sickle-cell disease, hepatocarcinoma, etc. Only 124 (17.7%) cases showed normal hepatic histology. The wide possibility of histological diagnoses strongly indicates that the material obtained by viscerotomy can be further explored by an interested pathologist, to help in the understanding of nosology and epidemiology, concerning remote geographic areas where viscerotomy is being routinely performed.
 ...
PMID:[Hepatic viscerotomy (its contribution to the study of regional nosology)]. 752 Oct 56

Rhinocerebral phycomycosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection with ubiquitous fungi of the class Phycomycetes, starting in the nose and extending to the paranasal sinuses and then intracranially. The condition is often characterized by poor prognosis because of occlusion of the internal carotid artery. This disease is commonly associated with predispositions such as uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, which is the most common, immunosuppressive states and metabolic bankruptcy including leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, malnutrition, uremic or diarrheal acidosis, severe burns, anemia, carcinoma, radiotherapy, liver cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, tuberculosis, septicemia, long-term medication of steroid, antibiotics and antimetabolite, drug addiction, cytotoxic drug administration and AIDS. Cases with unknown predisposition, however, have been infrequently reported in the literature. The authors report a case of rhinocerebral phycomycosis in which concurrence of Candida species instead of the above-mentioned common predispositions was considered a potential predisposition. To our knowledge, only 1 report in which Candida species are referred to as a potential predisposition for this disease has been previously issued. A 85-year-old man was admitted to our hospital on March 2, 1994 because of generalized convulsion. He had received a total extirpation of an ascending colon cancer in July 1993. On admission, physical inspection showed no abnormalities and neurological examination revealed obtunded consciousness without other abnormalities. He had no diabetes mellitus. Hematological and blood chemistry values were normal except for CA19-9 of 45 U/ml.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
 ...
PMID:[A case of rhinocerebral phycomycosis]. 760 36


<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next >>