title: [Posttransplant relapse in non viral hepatopathies].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Linda Elsa
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Muñoz-Espinosa
authors.forename: Alnitak
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martínez-García
authors.forename: Oralia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: del Castillo
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cordero-Pérez
authors.forename: Eloy
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Caballero-Mendoza
authors.forename: Edelmiro
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pérez-Rodríguez
authors.forename: Marco Antonio
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hernández Guedea
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Elizondo-Riojas
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Escobedo-Villarreal
mesh_terms: 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