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Laparoscopic Findings in Senescent Patients with Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Author(s) -
KUROSE Kiyotaka,
MASUMOTO Toshikazu,
AKBAR S. M. Fazle,
MICHITAKA Kojiro,
HORIIKE Norio,
ONJI Morikazu
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
digestive endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.5
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1443-1661
pISSN - 0915-5635
DOI - 10.1111/j.1443-1661.1997.tb00457.x
Subject(s) - medicine , primary biliary cirrhosis , asymptomatic , stage (stratigraphy) , gastroenterology , itching , cirrhosis , liver biopsy , biopsy , surgery , paleontology , biology
Fifty ‐two patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), 10 of whom were 65 years or older at the time of diagnosis, were investigated by laparo‐scopy. Laparoscopic findings in these 10 patients were evaluated and compared with those in younger patients. The 10 cases were composed of nine females and one male, and two had been diagnosed as having symptomatic PBC with skin itching, while the remaining eight had asymptomatic PBC. Two, seven and one case were in Scheuer's stage I, II and III, respectively, and eight had chronic non‐suppurative destructive cholangitis (CNSDC) on liver biopsy specimens. The majority of senescent PBC patients had typical findings of the early stage of PBC on the liver surface; mild undulations in nine and reddish patches in eight. The laparoscopic findings in senescent PBC were relatively mild.