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This paper gives, in detail, the causes of either liver disease or hepatomegaly in 100 patients, mostly adults, admitted to the medical wards of Angau Memorial Hospital, Lae, during 1968 and 1969. The major findings included liver cell carcinoma, cirrhosis (often with chronic active hepatitis), tropical splenomegaly, pericholangitis and hepatitis. There were 27 with miscellaneous findings including ten with normal, or almost normal, livers despite the definite enlargement. Patients with liver cell carcinoma presented late in the course of their illness and had a poor prognosis. Others, with pericholangitis, had clinical features of portal hypertension indistinguishable from that complicated cirrhosis. There was an unexpected number with chronic active hepatitis and a liver biopsy is essential for such a diagnosis. Hepatic sinusoidal lymphocytosis is almost invariably found in patients with TS but may occasionally be found in those with a non-palpable spleen. Patients with right heart failure of chronic respiratory disease, and jaundice of acute pneumonia were excluded from the study.
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PMID:Liver disease in Papua New Guinea. 19 19

Right heart failure associated with postmortem evidence of pulmonary hypertension (cor pulmonale) was observed in nearly 1% of the young beagles of a large research colony. During the past 18 years, 176 dogs with cor pulmonale were observed. Most cases occurred between September and April of each year. Nearly equal numbers of males and females were involved, and some siblings were affected. Ninety-six percent of known affected dogs died, and 85% of the deaths occurred by 5 weeks of age. Clinically, most dogs were stunted and exhibited ascites, subcutaneous edema, hypothermia, dyspnea, cyanosis, and systolic murmur. Radiography revealed cardiomegaly, and electrocardiography revealed right axis deviation and an enlarged right atrium. Postmortem evidence of cor pulmonale included subcutaneous edema, ascites, hydrothorax, mediastinal and mesenteric edema, splenomegaly, centrolobular hepatic congestion and necrosis, right ventricular hypertrophy, interstitial pneumonia, and medial hypertrophy of pulmonary arteries and arterioles. The specific cause of the disease was not determined.
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PMID:Spontaneous cor pulmonale in laboratory beagles. 687 38