Cryptogenic cirrhosis, or cryptogenic liver disease, is when the liver is scarred and damaged but the cause is unknown. The term “cirrhosis” means scarring of the liver. “Cryptogenic ...

Cryptogenic cirrhosis is liver scarring that occurs without a known cause. It can cause fatigue, appetite loss, weight loss, swelling, and jaundice and may lead to irreversible liver damage.

Notably, cryptogenic liver disease accounts for nearly 10 percent of all cases of liver disease. 44,45 Although some conditions — including diabetes, obesity, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and ...

It is increasingly common in the literature for cryptogenic cirrhosis, with or without biopsy, to be attributed to NAFLD or NASH. At this time, unfortunately, ...

Cryptogenic liver disease was defined as persistently elevated liver enzymes (ALT and AST) in the absence of hepatitis co-infection or any other obvious cause. Out of the 4500 HIV-positive patients ...

Cirrhosis is a condition in which scar tissue gradually replaces your healthy liver cells. It usually happens over a long period, often due to infection, other diseases, or alcohol addiction. Most ...

Patient is a 19-year-old African-American female with cryptogenic cirrhosis complicated by esophageal varices (grade 1) and portal hypertensive gastropathy who presents with lower GI bleed. The ...

But what caused many cases of the cryptogenic cirrhosis wasn't known until recently. "It turns out most if not the vast majority of cryptogenic cirrhotics are NASH patients," Pruzanski said.

We investigated the metabolic defect(s) of four children who presented with isolated cryptogenic chronic liver disease, coagulopathy, and abnormalities of several unrelated serum glycoproteins.