Cirrhosis: An Unusual Presentation
of Sickle Cell Disease
Published: February 1, 2015 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2015/.5501
Rupal Dosi, Rushad Patell, Pooja Jariwala, Purav Shah, Sarfaraz Jasdanwala
1. Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.
2. Senior Resident, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.
3. Resident, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.
4. Intern, Department of Medicine, Medical College Baroda, Gujarat, India.
5. Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center, New Jersey, USA.
Correspondence
Dr. Rushad Patell,
32 Alka Society, Akota, Gujarat-390020, India.
E-mail: rrushadpatell@gmail.com
Hepatobiliary complications of sickle cell disease are relatively rare but well recognised in literature. Clinical syndromes range from mild intrahepatic cholestasis and gallstones to life threatening sequestration crisis. Most patients, homozygous for sickle cell anaemia, present before adolescence. We report a case of an adult man with no prior symptoms who presented for the first time with decompensated cirrhosis, which was found to be due to underlying previously unrecognised sickle cell anaemia.
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