cryptogenic cirrhosis

Mutations in this gene have been linked to cryptogenic cirrhosis.

Three of the plaintiffs have pituitary gland tumors, and one has cryptogenic cirrhosis.

Of the three patients not referred, one had cryptogenic cirrhosis and two had primary biliary cirrhosis.

The figures may be slightly higher because doctors sometimes disguise the diagnosis by calling it cryptogenic cirrhosis or cirrhosis of unknown origin.

The aetiology of the non-alcoholic liver disease group was cryptogenic cirrhosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, chronic active hepatitis, and miscellaneous, which were evenly distributed between the two groups.

Bugianesi E, Leone N, Vanni E, et al.: Expanding the natural history of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: from cryptogenic cirrhosis to hepatocellular carcinoma.

Liver biopsies, done in 8 patients, disclosed post-viral chronic active hepatitis (3), cryptogenic cirrhosis (2), and one case each of post-viral cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, and autoimmune hepatitis.

Firstly, the aetiology of the cirrhosis is somewhat different; alcoholic liver disease is less common in the elderly but there is an increased prevalence of both cryptogenic cirrhosis and primary biliary cirrhosis in this group.

Seventeen of these had died - 15 with alcoholic liver disease (14 not abstinent, one abstinent patient in whom coexistent disease excluded transplantation), and two patients aged 73 and 86 years with cryptogenic cirrhosis were not fit for transplantation.