Hepatobiliary Disease Associated with Hypereosinophilia: A Report of Two Patients and a Review of the Literature
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : L. M. Morgan-Rowe M. Pericleous T. V. Luong J. S. Dooley A. K. Burroughs
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
Gastrointestinal involvement in the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) most commonly manifests as gastroenteritis. There are, however, case reports of cholangiopathy associated with hypereosinophilia [1–12], sometimes in conjunction with colitis—thus leading to difficulty distinguishing these cases from primary sclerosing cholangitis, which often occurs in conjunction with ulcerative colitis. There are also reports of chronic hepatitis associated with hypereosinophilia [13, 14]. We report two cases of the rare association of liver disease with HES: one with chronic eosinophilic cholangitis and the other with features of both severe chronic hepatitis and sclerosing cholangitis associated with hypereosinophilia. The latter is particularly rare, with a search finding no such report in the literature
Dig Dis Sci DOI 10.1007/s10620-011-1764-1 Received: 31 August 2010 / Accepted: 18 May 2011
