Abstract

FIGUERA, Z et al. Hemangiomatosis hepática en lactantes: diagnóstico y evolución. “hospital j. m. de los ríos”. caracas - venezuela . Gen [online]. 2011, vol.65, n.1, pp.38-41. ISSN 0016-3503.

Hepatic vascular lesions in children are rare but not uncommon in pediatric gastroenterology. Hemangiomas are the most common vascular liver tumors in childhood, most benign course, some, including infantile hemangioendothelioma, have malignant potential. The clinical manifestations are hepatomegaly, abdominal pain, cutaneous hemangiomas and congestive heart failure and less frequent splenomegaly, jaundice, ascites, gastrointestinal bleeding and anemia. We present five infants between 1 and 4 months with a diagnosis of hepatic hemangiomatosis, in three of them the diagnosis was made incidentally by ultrasonography, showed a progressive increase in abdominal volume and a hepatomegaly, three had skin hemangiomas. All of them presented with anemia. Hepatomegaly describing ultrasound was performed, with multiple images rounded, hypoechoic, of different sizes in both lobes, abdominal computed tomography: hepatomegaly with involvement of both lobes, occupied by hypodense nodular areas. Services were assessed by endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology and pediatric surgery. In one a liver biopsy was performed. Treated with prednisone 3-4 mg / kg / day with gradual decrease of the same, clinical and ultrasound for 1 year. Four patients responded to treatment, demonstrating decreased or even disappeared in three patients with hemangiomas, and one did not respond, associating propranolol.

Keywords : Hepatic hemangiomatosis; Infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma; Liver tumors.