title: [Portal hypertension and chronic arsenic exposure. A differential diagnostic challenge].
abstract: We are reporting on a 62 year old female patient with portal hypertension (splenomegaly, esophageal varicosis) without signs of liver cirrhosis, who was hospitalized for sclerotherapy of her esophageal varices. Physical examination showed up palmar- and plantar hyperkeratosis and Morbus Bowen or basalioma-like skin lesions++. Anamnestic evaluation revealed, that the patient's psoriasis had been treated with arsenic for many years. This kind of treatment may have induced intraluminal proliferation and obliteration of the portal vein's endothelium, thus being the etiologic factor responsible for noncirrhotic portal hypertension in this patient.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meran
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Creutzig
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Specht
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schürmeyer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brunner
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ranke
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fabel
mesh_terms: D001149:Arsenates / Q000506:poisoning*; D020261:Arsenic Poisoning; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000139:chemically induced*; D005260:Female; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000139:chemically induced; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D001149:Arsenates; C025657:arsenic acid
vernacular_title: Portale Hypertension und chronische Arsenexposition. Eine differentialdiagnostische Herausforderung.