Abstract

FOLKMANAS, William  and  PESTANA, Elena. Hepatopatías: Hallazgos histológicos, Clínicos y Bioquímicos. Gen [online]. 2007, vol.61, n.4, pp.281-286. ISSN 0016-3503.

Introduction: hepatic biopsy is necessary to evaluate the etiology and severity of hepatic diseases. General Objective: to know the epidemiologic facts of patients with hepatic disease attending our hospital. Methods: a prospective study was made with patients who attended the outpatient hepatology consultation at our hospital, from march to October of 2004. Results: We studied a total of 25 patients, twelve male (48%) and thirteen female (52%). According to the results of the hepatic biopsy 44% had Hepatic Steatosis, 24% steatohepatitis, 20% Chronic Hepatitis, 8% Cirrhosis and 4% Hepatic Fibrosis. Conclusion: 1.- Echosonography has a sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 75% 2.- The clinical data represent a sensibility of 88% and a specificity of 100% 3.- 44% of the patients, have normal aminotranferases, with abnormal histology findings at biopsy. Recommendations: We recommend a hepatic biopsy in all patients with suspicious of hepatic disease, regardless of aminotranferases values.

Keywords : Hepatic biopsy; steatosis; Cirrhosis.