Deranged liver function tests in type 1 diabetes mellitus: an unusual presentation of Treponema pallidum infection.
Deranged liver function tests are common in the diabetic population. Acute derangements are less common, however, and are usually secondary to viral or drug-related causes. A case of syphilitic hepatitis associated with positive anti-mitochondrial antibodies is described, where diagnostic confusion was present until characteristic features of the secondary phase of syphilis infection occurred.
Jamieson
Andrew
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Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Queen Margaret Hospital, KY12 0SU, Dunfermline, UK