[Changes in the small intestine mucosa in liver cirrhosis]

A morphological examination was carried out of 33 patients with cirrhosis of liver and 10 clinically healthy subjects. Chronic jejunitis, with the prevalence of its atrophic forms (in 59.1%) was established to develop in 86.4 per cent of the patients. The morphological characteristics of the changes observed (prevalence of dystrophic-destructive processes with marked lesions of the specialized structures, presence of hypore-generative and moderately manifested inflammatory reaction) allow that they be considered as endogenously conditioned forms of chronic jejunitis.