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Apolipoprotein AI and alcoholic liver disease

✍ Scribed by Dr. Thierry Poynard; Annie Abella; Jean-Pierre Pignon; Sylvie Naveau; Robert Leluc; Jean-Claude Chaput

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Weight: 536 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840060628

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✦ Synopsis

A prospective study of apolipoprotein AI has been undertaken in 581 alcoholic patients and in 100 controls in order to describe the changes of apolipoprotein AI according to the different stages of the alcoholic liver disease, to correlate the changes to serum liver tests and to estimate its diagnosis and prognostic value. Results showed that apolipoprotein AI concentration is highly related to the degree of liver injury, reaching a maximum in patients with steatosis (229 +/- 90 mg per dl), beginning to decrease in patients with fibrosis (188 +/- 88 mg per dl) and reaching a minimum in patients with severe cirrhosis (91 +/- 46 mg per dl). Apolipoprotein AI had an independent and discriminative value for the diagnosis of fibrosis (p less than 0.001) vs. steatosis and for the diagnosis of cirrhotic vs. noncirrhotic fibrosis (p less than 0.001) or vs. acute alcoholic hepatitis without cirrhosis (p less than 0.001). Cirrhotic patients with apolipoprotein AI less than 100 mg per dl had a lower survival rate at 1 year (62 +/- 7%) than patients with greater value (80 +/- 6%; p less than 0.05), but this prognostic value disappeared in multivariate analysis when other known prognostic factors were taken into account.

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