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Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci ; 28(8): 3099-3103, 2024 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38708468

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BACKGROUND: Liver cirrhosis is the end-stage entity for a wide variety of chronic liver pathologies. These include viral hepatitis B and C, alcoholic liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hemochromatosis, Wilson disease, autoimmune hepatitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and primary biliary cirrhosis. In the majority of cases, liver cirrhosis remains completely asymptomatic until acute decompensation occurs. Patients may present complications of portal hypertension such as gastro-esophageal varices and upper digestive hemorrhage, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, or hepato-renal syndrome. Establishing the right etiology of cirrhosis is of paramount importance as it helps the treating physician plan the best suitable treatment options and also improves overall outcome. CASE REPORT: We present a case of a chronic alcohol consumer, which, over time, resulted in alcoholic cirrhosis. Initial diagnosis comprised of alcoholic liver disease. However, a further look into the medical history of the patients indicated the presence of underlying autoimmune liver disease, such as autoimmune hepatitis, which might have also contributed to the chronic liver injury. CONCLUSIONS: Multiple factors can lead to liver cirrhosis. Although the most commonly found entity is alcoholism, it cannot be taken as a thumb rule for the only possible etiology. In-depth analysis and proper differential diagnosis should be carefully conducted in order not to miss out on other possible causes. As seen in our case, where an underlying autoimmune hepatitis was found to be the culprit, but due to a long history of alcohol consumption, it was masked at first instance.


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Alcoolismo , Hepatite Autoimune , Humanos , Alcoolismo/complicações , Hepatite Autoimune/complicações , Hepatite Autoimune/diagnóstico , Cirrose Hepática/complicações , Cirrose Hepática/diagnóstico , Cirrose Hepática Alcoólica/complicações , Cirrose Hepática Alcoólica/diagnóstico
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Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci ; 27(12): 5590-5595, 2023 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37401296

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OBJECTIVE: Aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI) and fibrosis 4 (FIB-4) index are noninvasive biomarkers that evaluate liver stiffness in patients with chronic viral hepatitis and are able to detect advanced hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. However, their usefulness in alcoholic liver disease (ALD), when compared with Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse- Shear Wave (ARFI-SW) elastography, is debatable. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We sifted the files of all enrolled patients with ALD that were admitted to our Emergency hospital between January 2019 and December 2020. All patients had undergone ARFI-SW elastography, and APRI and FIB-4 scores were calculated. The performance of APRI and FIB-4 scores in the prediction of cirrhotic patients according to ARFI-SW elastography was evaluated. RESULTS: In total, 120 patients with ALD were evaluated. All of them were male and Caucasian, with a mean age of 55.54±12.4 years. The mean ARFI-SW elastography score was 1.57±0.7 m/s, the median APRI score was 0.68 (0.1-11.6) and the median FIB-4 score was 1.8 (0.2-19.4). Stages of liver fibrosis according to ARFI-SW elastography were evaluated as F0-1 in 21 (10.5%), F2 in 35 (26%), F3 in 52 (17.5%), and F4 in 92 (46%) patients. Based on ARFI-SW elastography fibrosis stage classification, we estimated the optimal APRI and FIB-4 scores to predict the presence of liver cirrhosis (F4) by using ROC curve analysis and the Youden index. The optimal APRI score for F4 patients was calculated as >1.52 [area under the curve (AUC) 0.875, 95% CI 0.809-0.919; p<0.001], giving sensitivity (Se) 81.2%, specificity (Sp) 81.4%, positive predictive value (PPV) 76%, and negative predictive value (NPV) 86.1%. The optimal FIB-4 score for F4 patients was calculated as >2.77 (AUC 0.916, 95% CI 0.814-0.922; p<0.001), giving Se 83.8%, Sp 77%, 81.4 77%, and NPV 84.3%. CONCLUSIONS: APRI and FIB-4 scores can be used as screening tools in ALD for predicting cirrhosis instead of ARFI-SW elastography measurement, which is neither widely available nor an affordable method. Additional prospective studies are required in the future to confirm this finding.


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Técnicas de Imagem por Elasticidade , Hepatopatias Alcoólicas , Humanos , Masculino , Adulto , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Idoso , Feminino , Técnicas de Imagem por Elasticidade/métodos , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Biópsia , Cirrose Hepática/diagnóstico por imagem , Hepatopatias Alcoólicas/diagnóstico por imagem , Curva ROC , Biomarcadores , Aspartato Aminotransferases , Fígado/patologia
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