CYSTIC DISEASE OF LIVER AND KIDNEY WITH PORTAL HYPERTENSION - A CAUSE OF SUDDEN UNEXPECTED HEMATEMESIS

Cystic disease of the liver and kidney has a genetic basis, and is more frequent in females. When portal hypertension accom panies this malformation the patient often presents with sudden, unexpected hemateme sis. Severe or unusual infections, difficult to treat, represent other problems for the clini cian. One of the two patients here described was found at autopsy to have superimposed signs of cytomegalic inclusion disease in lungs and liver. © 1968, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.