[Alcohol-related liver diseases in the aged].
In these last years the authors have devoted themselves to chronic alcoholism rehabilitation. They have studied 99 over 65 years old subjects. In these subjects gastrointestinal pathology alcohol correlated incidence has been studied. An abdominal echography and an esophagogastroduodenoscopy have been performed in all these subjects. In some subjects, on the guide line of these tests, the authors have put through more tests: hepatosplenic scintigraphy, hepatic biopsy, laparoscopy, colonoscopy. Statistic elaboration was performed by chi-square test. The conclusions of this study are: 1) the diagnostic importance of association between echography and scintigraphy; 2) the low prevalence of severe hepatic alcohol related lesions in the elderly; 3) the importance of alcohol in hepatocarcinoma etiopathogenesis; 4) the incidence and the importance of phlogistic and ulcerous gastroduodenal lesions in elderly alcoholics.
Santonastaso
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Unità Operativa di Medicina Generale, Ospedale Civile, Vittorio Veneto.
Zanatta
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N
Cioffi
A
A
Garbelotto
R
R
Cecchetti
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E
D000005:Abdomen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D001706:Biopsy; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D005235:Fatty Liver, Alcoholic / Q000453:epidemiology; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000453:epidemiology; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography