[Liver cirrhosis and lymphoproliferative diseases]

Seven patients suffering from liver cirrhosis combined with lymphoproliferative diseases: chronic lymphoid leukemia (n = 4), lymphosarcoma (n = 3) were placed under observation. Viral etiology of liver cirrhosis was established in 4 patients (HBV markers were revealed in the serum in 2 and in liver tissue in 1) and was assumed in 3 patients (the lack in the anamnesis of other hepatotropic factors; multilobular form of liver cirrhosis). In 5 patients, the lymphoproliferative disease was diagnosed 2-30 years after the appearance of the symptoms of chronic diffuse liver disease. In 2 patients liver cirrhosis and hemoblastosis showed up simultaneously. The role of hepatitis viruses, HBV in particular, in the onset of lymphoproliferative diseases is under discussion.