title: Cholangiopathy and intrahepatic stones in sickle cell disease: coincidence or ischemic cholangiopathy?
abstract: Hepatic and bile duct involvement are common in sickle cell disease. This article reports the case of a young woman with cholangiopathy, homozygous sickle cell disease, and protracted anemia. We suggest that sickle cell disease was directly responsible for ischemic cholangiopathy through anoxia.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Hépatologie et INSERM U-481, Service d'Hépatologie Clinique, Service de Transfusion Sanguine, Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hillaire
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gardin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Attar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Attassi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Terris
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Belghiti
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Degott
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erlinger
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Valla
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000098:blood supply*; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002758:Cholangiography; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000150:complications*