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Published on: August 11, 2008
[Diagnosis of liver diseases in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis]
Abstract:
The paper deals with the results of detection of liver diseases in 868 patients who underwent examination at the department of pulmonary tuberculosis surgery of the St. Petersburg research institute of phthisiopulmonology. The rate of carriage of hepatitis B surface antigen was 11.05%, while Al/At activity was increased in 30.41% of the cases. Signs of chronic liver disease were diagnosed in 84 patients. Morphological examination verified the diagnosis of chronic hepatitis in 53% of the cases, including 44% of virus etiology; in the rest of patients medicamentous and alcoholic forms were found. Specific liver affections were detected in 16% of the patients, dystrophic and cirrhotic changes in 25%, mainly of medicamentous and alcoholic etiology; in 8% the cause of liver affection remained +non-established.
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