Article
Ultrastructural liver pathology in patients with minimal liver disease and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency: a comparison between heterozygous and homozygous patients.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Jan 2000
Hultcrantz R, Mengarelli S
Abstract excerpt
A light and electron microscopic investigation of liver tissue from three homozygous (Pi-type ZZ) and three heterozygous (Pi-type MZ) alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency patients is presented. All had slightly elevated levels of serum amino transferases as the only signs of liver damage. Light microsc...
Topics
- Adult
- Cell Survival
- Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Female
- Heterozygote
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Kupffer Cells
- Lipofuscin
- Liver
- Liver Diseases
- Lysosomes
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Risk
- alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency