[Posttransplant relapse in non viral hepatopathies].
OBJECTIVE
We describe the recurrence of non-viral liver disease after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).


RESULTS
We studied 39 patients who received an OLT for non-viral chronic liver disease. Six (15.3%) of these patients presented disease recurrence after OLT, one following alcohol abuse, 3 presented autoimmune liver disease [2 received an OLT for primary biliary cirrhosis and recurred as autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) one patient had cryptogenic cirrhosis before OLT and recurred as AIH]. One patient showed recurrence of a non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). One patient received an OLT for cirrhosis secondary to the use of metothrexate and post OLT developed secondary biliary cirrhosis due to a choledocal stenosis in the anastomotic site.


CONCLUSIONS
All patients described here displayed long term recurrence (after 11 months post OLT). The recurrence of alcoholism was 8.3% among patients transplanted for this condition. AIH was observed in 30% of cases and NASH in 20%. All three patients with autoimmune liver disease recurred with a different autoimmune disease post OLT.
Muñoz-Espinosa
Linda Elsa
LE
Unidad de Hígado, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Facultad de Medicina y Hospital Universitario Dr. José E. González, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. linda_uani@hotmail.com
Martínez-García
Alnitak
A
del Castillo
Oralia
O
Cordero-Pérez
Paula
P
Caballero-Mendoza
Eloy
E
Pérez-Rodríguez
Edelmiro
E
Hernández Guedea
Marco Antonio
MA
Elizondo-Riojas
Guillermo
G
Escobedo-Villarreal
Miguel
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D055815:Young Adult