A Case of Idiopathic Adulthood Ductopenia
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
; : 270-273, 2009.
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ABSTRACT
Idiopathic adulthood ductopenia (IAD) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease of unknown etiology characterized by adult onset, an absence of autoantibodies, inflammatory bowel disease, and a loss of interlobular bile ducts. In the present report, a case fulfilling the IAD criteria is described. A 19-year-old man was admitted to the hospital for persistent elevation of transaminases and alkaline phosphatase without clinical symptoms. Viral hepatitis markers and autoantibodies were absent. The patient had a normal extrahepatic biliary tree and had no evidence of inflammatory bowel disease. A liver biopsy specimen showed absence of interlobular bile ducts from 58% of the portal tracts. He was diagnosed with IAD and was treated with ursodeoxycholic acid.
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Colestasis Intrahepática
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Enfermedad Crónica
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Adult
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Humans
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Male
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The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
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2009
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