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Causes of minimal hepatic periportal fibrosis present in Egypt
S Abdel-Kader1, M Amin, H Hamdy
1Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
|January 13, 1998
Abstract:
This study aimed to elucidate the common causes of minimal periportal fibrosis in Egypt. Out of 50 patients having minimal periportal fibrosis, 22 (44%) had schistosomiasis as a sole aetiology, 33 (66%) had combined schistosomiasis with both HBV and HCV. Rare causes were tuberculosis in 4% of the patients and HIV in 2%. No cause could be elicited in 14% of the patients. It is concluded that although schistosomiasis is the commonest cause of minimal hepatic fibrosis in Egypt, yet it is not the sole aetiological factor.