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  • Title: [Hepatic amyloidosis as cause of severe intrahepatic cholestasis].
    Author: Gavilán JC, Bermúdez FJ, Márquez A, Sánchez-Carrillo JJ, González-Santos P.
    Journal: An Med Interna; 2003 Jan; 20(1):25-7. PubMed ID: 12666305.
    Abstract:
    The liver is frequently involved by amyloidosis, but hyperbilirubinemia and liver failure are uncommon features. A mild elevation of the serum alkaline phosphatase value and, less frequently, hepatomegaly are the most common findings. Usually the patients have no symptoms related with the liver involvement; the clinical manifestation and the long term prognosis depends on the renal and cardiac disease. We report an unusual clinical presentation of primary amyloidosis in a previously asymptomatic 65 years old woman who was admitted to the hospital because of ictericia and ascitis mimicking a drug induced acute hepatic failure.
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