Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report

INTRODUCTION: We report an unusual presentation of primary biliary cirrhosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 66-year-old white British woman who presented to the Accident and Emergency department with ascites and unilateral pleural effusion (hepatic hydrothorax). Following a liver biops...

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Autores principales: Wojcikiewicz, Thomas George, Gupta, Sachin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830194
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7371
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description INTRODUCTION: We report an unusual presentation of primary biliary cirrhosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 66-year-old white British woman who presented to the Accident and Emergency department with ascites and unilateral pleural effusion (hepatic hydrothorax). Following a liver biopsy, the diagnosis of primary biliary cirrhosis was made. CONCLUSION: It is important to consider the diagnosis of hepatic cirrhosis when presented with a unilateral pleural effusion in both the presence and absence of ascites.
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spelling pubmed-27377892009-10-14 Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report Wojcikiewicz, Thomas George Gupta, Sachin J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: We report an unusual presentation of primary biliary cirrhosis. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 66-year-old white British woman who presented to the Accident and Emergency department with ascites and unilateral pleural effusion (hepatic hydrothorax). Following a liver biopsy, the diagnosis of primary biliary cirrhosis was made. CONCLUSION: It is important to consider the diagnosis of hepatic cirrhosis when presented with a unilateral pleural effusion in both the presence and absence of ascites. BioMed Central 2009-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2737789/ /pubmed/19830194 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7371 Text en Copyright ©2009 licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report
title Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report
title_full Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report
title_fullStr Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report
title_short Primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report
title_sort primary biliary cirrhosis presenting with ascites and a hepatic hydrothorax: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830194
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1752-1947-3-7371
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