Journal of hepatology
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Journal of hepatology · Mar 1997
Comparative StudyHypercoagulability in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis evaluated by thrombelastography.
Patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis survive variceal bleeding better than patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and have less bleeding at liver transplantation. Recently, patients with primary biliary cirrhosis have been found to have a higher incidence of thrombosis in the portal venous tree. We hypothesized that primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis patients may be hypercoagulable. ⋯ This diffference between biliary and parenchymal liver disease may have clinical implications, which need to be defined.