Does hepatocellular carcinoma in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis exist in cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic patients?

Autor: Chagas,A.L., Kikuchi,L.O.O., Oliveira,C.P.M.S., Vezozzo,D.C.P., Mello,E.S., Oliveira,A.C., Cella,L.C., Herman,P., Bachella,T., Caldwell,S.H., Alves,V.A.F., Carrilho,F.J.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, Volume: 42, Issue: 10, Pages: 958-962, Published: 04 SEP 2009
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research v.42 n.10 2009
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica (ABDC)
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Popis: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has been associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) often arising in histologically advanced disease when steatohepatitis is not active (cryptogenic cirrhosis). Our objective was to characterize patients with HCC and active, histologically defined steatohepatitis. Among 394 patients with HCC detected by ultrasound imaging over 8 years and staged by the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) criteria, we identified 7 cases (1.7%) with HCC occurring in the setting of active biopsy-proven NASH. All were negative for other liver diseases such as hepatitis C, hepatitis B, autoimmune hepatitis, Wilson disease, and hemochromatosis. The patients (4 males and 3 females, age 63 ± 13 years) were either overweight (4) or obese (3); 57% were diabetic and 28.5% had dyslipidemia. Cirrhosis was present in 6 of 7 patients, but 1 patient had well-differentiated HCC in the setting of NASH without cirrhosis (fibrosis stage 1) based on repeated liver biopsies, the absence of portal hypertension by clinical and radiographic evaluations and by direct surgical inspection. Among the cirrhotic patients, 71.4% were clinically staged as Child A and 14.2% as Child B. Tumor size ranged from 1.0 to 5.2 cm and 5 of 7 patients were classified as early stage; 46% of all nodules were hyper-echoic and 57% were
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