Spontaneous Resolution of Symptomatic Hepatic Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory process of unknown etiology, characterized by noncaseating granulomas. Isolated extrapulmonary disease is rare. We present a case of a 60-year-old woman with chronically elevated alkaline phosphatase. Upon obtaining a liver biopsy, granulomatous hepatitis was observed,...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Viva, Ngo, Henry N., Awad, Hamza H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6093030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30155317
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1535049
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description Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory process of unknown etiology, characterized by noncaseating granulomas. Isolated extrapulmonary disease is rare. We present a case of a 60-year-old woman with chronically elevated alkaline phosphatase. Upon obtaining a liver biopsy, granulomatous hepatitis was observed, suggestive of sarcoidosis. No particular treatment was initiated, and 3 years following the onset of elevated alkaline phosphatase, her levels decreased spontaneously.
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spelling pubmed-60930302018-08-28 Spontaneous Resolution of Symptomatic Hepatic Sarcoidosis Nguyen, Viva Ngo, Henry N. Awad, Hamza H. Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory process of unknown etiology, characterized by noncaseating granulomas. Isolated extrapulmonary disease is rare. We present a case of a 60-year-old woman with chronically elevated alkaline phosphatase. Upon obtaining a liver biopsy, granulomatous hepatitis was observed, suggestive of sarcoidosis. No particular treatment was initiated, and 3 years following the onset of elevated alkaline phosphatase, her levels decreased spontaneously. Hindawi 2018-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6093030/ /pubmed/30155317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1535049 Text en Copyright © 2018 Viva Nguyen et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Spontaneous Resolution of Symptomatic Hepatic Sarcoidosis
title_sort spontaneous resolution of symptomatic hepatic sarcoidosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6093030/
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