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  • Title: Hepatic changes in a patient with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (MZ phenotype). Portal tract elastosis and noncirrhotic portal hypertension.
    Author: Lee FI, Kelly JK, Vasudev KS.
    Journal: Arch Pathol Lab Med; 1983 Sep; 107(9):453-5. PubMed ID: 6603830.
    Abstract:
    A 57-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (PiMZ phenotype), recovering from intraabdominal sepsis in association with gastric ulcer perforation, had portal hypertension. An operative liver biopsy specimen showed a distinctive elastosis of the portal tracts without cirrhosis.
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