A RARE CASE OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION WITH HUGE SPLENOMEGALY, HYPERSPLENISM & SPLENIC PSEUDOCYST
Journal Title: European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 9
Abstract
Portal hypertension is a common problem in our country. It occurs as a complication to periportal fibrosis that result from schistomiasis, it a medical condition unless complicated. the complications may manifest as hyperactivity of the spleen and destruction of all blood cell types that result in pancytopenia as in this case. The enlarged spleen may undergo some degenerative changes such as splenic infarction that complicated by pseudocyst as in this case. A case reported of 56 yrs old known case of periportal fibrosis, portal hypertension and liver cirrhosis complicated by huge splenomegaly, hypersplenism and post infarction splenic cyst which develop rapidly over period of 10 days during hospital admission. It’s very rare to find all these findings on the same pt and to our knowledge there’s no literature reported similar case.
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Dr. Hozifa Mohammed Ali Abd Elmaged
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