title: Rapidly progressive HCV cirrhosis in a hypogammaglobulinemic patient.
abstract: Contrary to the widely known view of the insidious, slowly progressive pattern of hepatitis C, a rapidly progressive cirrhotic form can develop in immunodeficient conditions. Hepatitis C leads to cirrhosis in immunocompetent hosts after 20 years of infection however in hypogammaglobulinemic patients disease progresses faster, leading to cirrhosis and death within 10 years of diagnosis and frequently earlier. Here we present a 57-year-old woman with common variable immunodeficiency infected with hepatitis C after antral and duodenal resection and gastrojejunostomy operation in another hospital for lymphoma mimicking duodenal nodular hyperplasia which then rapidly progressed to decompensated cirrhosis in less than two years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterohepatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine. fatihermis2@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ermis
authors.forename: Filiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Akyüz
authors.forename: Kadir
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Beşisik
authors.forename: Güngör
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Boztaş
authors.forename: Zeynel
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mungan
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000361:Agammaglobulinemia / Q000150:complications*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000821:virology; D013505:Digestive System Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000821:virology*; D008875:Middle Aged