Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis: Atypical Presentation with Markedly Elevated Alkaline Phosphatase

Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is an acute inflammatory liver disease with poor prognosis. Infections in AH are difficult to detect and contribute to short-term mortality. Intrahepatic cholestasis and elevated alkaline phosphatase levels are also associated with worse outcomes. This report describes an un...

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Autores principales: Axley, Page, Russ, Kirk, Singal, Ashwani K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: XIA & HE Publishing Inc. 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29226108
http://dx.doi.org/10.14218/JCTH.2017.00044
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description Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is an acute inflammatory liver disease with poor prognosis. Infections in AH are difficult to detect and contribute to short-term mortality. Intrahepatic cholestasis and elevated alkaline phosphatase levels are also associated with worse outcomes. This report describes an uncommon presentation of severe AH.
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spelling pubmed-57191992017-12-08 Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis: Atypical Presentation with Markedly Elevated Alkaline Phosphatase Axley, Page Russ, Kirk Singal, Ashwani K. J Clin Transl Hepatol Case Report Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is an acute inflammatory liver disease with poor prognosis. Infections in AH are difficult to detect and contribute to short-term mortality. Intrahepatic cholestasis and elevated alkaline phosphatase levels are also associated with worse outcomes. This report describes an uncommon presentation of severe AH. XIA & HE Publishing Inc. 2017-09-03 2017-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5719199/ /pubmed/29226108 http://dx.doi.org/10.14218/JCTH.2017.00044 Text en © 2017 Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article has been published under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits noncommercial unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the following statement is provided. “This article has been published in Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology at DOI: 10.14218/JCTH.2017.00044 and can also be viewed on the Journal’s website at http://www.jcthnet.com”.
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title_full_unstemmed Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis: Atypical Presentation with Markedly Elevated Alkaline Phosphatase
title_short Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis: Atypical Presentation with Markedly Elevated Alkaline Phosphatase
title_sort severe alcoholic hepatitis: atypical presentation with markedly elevated alkaline phosphatase
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719199/
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