IDIOPATHIC ADULTHOOD DUCTOPENIA PRESENTING WITH CHRONIC RECURRENT CHOLESTASIS - A CASE-REPORT

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FAA, G
VANEYKEN, P
DEMELIA, L
VALLEBONA, E
COSTA, V
DESMET, VJ
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[1] UNIV CAGLIARI,IST MED INTERNA,I-09100 CAGLIARI,ITALY
[2] UNIV CAGLIARI,IST ANAT & ISTOL PATOL,I-09100 CAGLIARI,ITALY
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10.1016/0168-8278(91)90902-N
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R57 [消化系及腹部疾病];
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The paucity of the intrahepatic bile ducts, also known as ductopenia, is a well recognized disorder in pediatric patients. Recently, however, a similar disorder has been reported in adults and termed idiopathic adulthood ductopenia (IAD). We describe a 30-year-old patient with a 15 year history of episodes of jaundice. During icteric episodes, serum levels of bililrubin and alkaline phosphatase were markedly elevated. Between attacks, totalling more than 30, the patient was asymptomatic, but bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase levels were mildly elevated. No neonatal jaundice was present in the patient's history. PBC, PSC and drug-induced cholestasis were excluded. Two needle biopsies of the liver, taken within a 13 year interval, were available. The lobular architecture appeared progressively disturbed by porto-centro-portal bridging septa. In both biopsies, a destructive cholangitis was found. In the last biopsy, the majority of the septal and interlobular ducts appeared severely damaged and, in three out of seven portal tracts, the interlobular bile duct had disappeared. In the parenchyma, the main feature was a severe mainly canalicular bilirubinostasis. The patient described illustrates that IAD may have a clinical picture indistinguishable from benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis. The etiology of the disease, in this as in other patients, remains unknown.
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