Alcoholic liver disease in the elderly: presentation and outcome.
We studied 34 patients with alcoholic liver disease presenting for the first time over the age of 60 years. Symptoms were usually non-specific including malaise (62%), anorexia (41%) and abdominal pain (38%). The most prominent sign was hepatomegaly (79%). Seventy-nine per cent of the patients had established cirrhosis at the time of presentation. For this group the prognosis was very poor, 48% died within one year of presentation.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies