title: Alcoholic liver disease in a psychiatric hospital.
abstract: Liver biopsy was analysed for 41 alcoholics, satisfying RDC criteria. Alcoholic liver disease was diagnosed as per the guidelines from the WHO/ICMR Workshop. For the entire group mean consumption of alcohol was 183.lg. of ethanol for an average of 9.7 years. Only 5 persons (12.2%) had normal liver. Six persons (14.6%) had Fatty liver, 23 (56.1%) had alcoholic hepatitis, and 4(9.7%) had precirrhosis and cirrhosis. Biochemical analysis showed that alcoholics had elevated values of SGOT, SGPT and GGT as compared to control non - drinker population. Malnutrition did not appear to be a contaminating factor for the observed histopathological findings.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Shankar
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ray
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gentiana
authors.forename: K T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Shetty
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Subbakrishna