title: Hepatic Kaposi sarcoma: A case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is an aggressive cancer caused by human herpesvirus-8, primarily seen in immunocompromised patients. As opposed to the well-described cutaneous manifestations and pulmonary complications of KS, hepatic KS is rarely reported before death as most patients with hepatic KS do not manifest symptoms or evidence of liver injury. In patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatic involvement of KS is present in 12%-24% of the population on incidental imaging and in approximately 35% of patients with cutaneous KS if an autopsy was completed after their death. Patients with clinically significant hepatic injury due to hepatic KS usually have an aggressive course of disease with hepatic failure often progressing to multi-organ failure and death. Here we report an unusual presentation of acute liver injury due to hepatic KS and briefly review the published literature on hepatic KS.
authors.affiliation: Brett Van Leer-Greenberg, Abhisake Kole, Saurabh Chawla, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Van Leer-Greenberg
authors.affiliation: Brett Van Leer-Greenberg, Abhisake Kole, Saurabh Chawla, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
authors.forename: Abhisake
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kole
authors.affiliation: Brett Van Leer-Greenberg, Abhisake Kole, Saurabh Chawla, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
authors.forename: Saurabh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chawla
keywords: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome hepatopathy; Acquired immune deficiency syndrome-related Kaposi sarcoma; Herpesvirus 8; Human; Kaposi sarcoma