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Hepatic sarcoidosis resembling primary sclerosing cholangitis

We report the case of a 29-year-old man who presented with progressive weight loss, night sweats, abdominal pain and pruritus who was found to have obstructive jaundice and cholestatic pattern of liver injury on laboratory workup. Though findings on magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography were i...

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Autores principales: Chen, Ying, Ciobanu, Camelia, Mohrmann, Laurel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8424844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34493554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-243492
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description We report the case of a 29-year-old man who presented with progressive weight loss, night sweats, abdominal pain and pruritus who was found to have obstructive jaundice and cholestatic pattern of liver injury on laboratory workup. Though findings on magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography were initially concerning primary sclerosing cholangitis, he was ultimately diagnosed with biliary sarcoidosis after a liver biopsy. This case brings attention to the rare phenomenon of hepatic sarcoidosis causing hyperbilirubinemia and highlights the importance of reaching the correct diagnosis early, as the patient’s symptoms improved after initiation of steroids.
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spelling pubmed-84248442021-09-29 Hepatic sarcoidosis resembling primary sclerosing cholangitis Chen, Ying Ciobanu, Camelia Mohrmann, Laurel BMJ Case Rep Case Report We report the case of a 29-year-old man who presented with progressive weight loss, night sweats, abdominal pain and pruritus who was found to have obstructive jaundice and cholestatic pattern of liver injury on laboratory workup. Though findings on magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography were initially concerning primary sclerosing cholangitis, he was ultimately diagnosed with biliary sarcoidosis after a liver biopsy. This case brings attention to the rare phenomenon of hepatic sarcoidosis causing hyperbilirubinemia and highlights the importance of reaching the correct diagnosis early, as the patient’s symptoms improved after initiation of steroids. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8424844/ /pubmed/34493554 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-243492 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Hepatic sarcoidosis resembling primary sclerosing cholangitis
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title_full Hepatic sarcoidosis resembling primary sclerosing cholangitis
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title_short Hepatic sarcoidosis resembling primary sclerosing cholangitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8424844/
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