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[Alpha 1 antitrypsin in cryptogenetic cirrhosis (author's transl)]
Quaderni Sclavo Di Diagnostica Clinica E Di Laboratorio
|June 1, 1979
Abstract:
Serum levels of alpha 1-antitrypsin were measured in 118 patients. Among these, 90 subjects presented with hepatic pathology of which 42 were of cryptogenetic origin. Not one of the subjects studied showed a decrease in alpha 1-antitrypsin nor did the results of liver biopsies prove positive for PAS cytoplasmic corpuscles. It is suggested that alpha 1-antitrypsin deficit does not play an important role in cryptogenetic cirrhosis.