title: [Asymptomatic forms of primary biliary cirrhosis seen in 10 years in Picardie].
abstract: Thirty-one patients with primary biliary cirrhosis were observed in Picardy during the decade 1975-1984. Mean annual incidence was 2.6 per 10(6), and point prevalence, 13 per 10(6) inhabitants in 1984. Asymptomatic cases (without clinical manifestations of cholestasis) constituted 32% of all patients. In five of the 21 symptomatic patients, ascites and/or digestive hemorrhage due to ruptured esophageal varices revealed the disease. Nine patients (2 with initially asymptomatic PBC) died during the follow-up period. Cholelithiasis was present in 10 patients (32%) and one case of hepatocellular carcinoma was found at autopsy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Les formes asymptomatiques de la cirrhose biliaire primitive observées en 10 ans en Picardie.