Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease
Hepatobiliary complications of sickle cell disease are relatively rare but well recognised in literature. Clinical syndromes range from mild intrahepatic cholestasis and gallstones to life threatening sequestration crisis. Most patients, homozygous for sickle cell anaemia, present before adolescen...
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| author | Rupal Dosi Rushad Patell Pooja Jariwala Purav Shah Sarfaraz Jasdanwala |
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| description | Hepatobiliary complications of sickle cell disease are relatively rare but well recognised in literature. Clinical syndromes range from mild
intrahepatic cholestasis and gallstones to life threatening sequestration crisis. Most patients, homozygous for sickle cell anaemia, present
before adolescence. We report a case of an adult man with no prior symptoms who presented for the first time with decompensated cirrhosis, which was found to be due to underlying previously unrecognised sickle cell anaemia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff7420a986954f9f9b6a02d5626520c72022-12-21T22:45:59ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2015-02-0192OD03OD0410.7860/JCDR/2015/8572.5501Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell DiseaseRupal Dosi0Rushad Patell1Pooja Jariwala2Purav Shah3Sarfaraz Jasdanwala4Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.Senior Resident, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.Resident, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.Intern, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center, New Jersey, USA.Hepatobiliary complications of sickle cell disease are relatively rare but well recognised in literature. Clinical syndromes range from mild intrahepatic cholestasis and gallstones to life threatening sequestration crisis. Most patients, homozygous for sickle cell anaemia, present before adolescence. We report a case of an adult man with no prior symptoms who presented for the first time with decompensated cirrhosis, which was found to be due to underlying previously unrecognised sickle cell anaemia.https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/5501/8572_CE(Ra)_F(Sh)_PF1(AJAK)_PFA(AK)_PFA2(AK)_PF2(PAG).pdfcirrhosissickle cell hepatopathysickle cell disease |
| spellingShingle | Rupal Dosi Rushad Patell Pooja Jariwala Purav Shah Sarfaraz Jasdanwala Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research cirrhosis sickle cell hepatopathy sickle cell disease |
| title | Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease |
| title_full | Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease |
| title_fullStr | Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease |
| title_short | Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease |
| title_sort | cirrhosis an unusual presentation of sickle cell disease |
| topic | cirrhosis sickle cell hepatopathy sickle cell disease |
| url | https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/5501/8572_CE(Ra)_F(Sh)_PF1(AJAK)_PFA(AK)_PFA2(AK)_PF2(PAG).pdf |
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