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Query: UMLS:C0023890 (cirrhosis)
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Hypoxia and intrahepatic hemodynamic abnormalities in circulatory failure are important pathogenetic factors in the development of cardiogenic fibrosis. Glycosamine glycans and H-acetylhexosaminidase serve as markers for basic substance turnover in the connective tissue and may be used in clinical practice and as screening tests to detect liver cirrhosis. Haptoglobin and ceruloplasmin act as protectors to stabilise the fibrogenesis of nutmeg liver and exert an immunomodulating action. Glutamate dehydrogenase levels may be employed as an early diagnostic criterion for assessing hepatocytic dysfunction caused by hypoxia in patients with heart failure.
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PMID:[Fibrosing reaction of nutmeg liver]. 213 3

A rare chronic course of Budd-Chiari syndrome associated with thrombosis of the portal vein was observed in a 30-year-old male patient suffering from postmyocarditic cardiosclerosis. At the age of 24 the patient had infectious allergic myocarditis, was hospitalized and rehospitalized for circulatory insufficiency. Upon 3 years since the disease onset the patient was admitted to a hematological department for progressive enlargement of the spleen. The diagnosis on discharge was idiopathic myelofibrosis with portal hypertension. The treatment included prednisolone, blood transfusions, myelosan. In 1987 the patient presented with enlarged liver and spleen, ascites, gastric and esophageal varicosis, augmenting hepatic insufficiency clinically evaluated as hepatic cirrhosis. Postmortem examination revealed macrofocal cardiosclerosis, splenomegaly, ascites, portal varicosis, enlarged nutmeg liver with smooth surface. Microscopically there was phlebosclerosis and phlebothrombosis varying in duration and involving predominantly medial branches of the hepatic and portal veins, liver fibrosis. The findings provided evidence for the final diagnosis of Budd-Chiari syndrome running an uncommon chronic course.
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PMID:[The chronic form of the Budd-Chiari syndrome]. 297 4