Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to G Ferrea.
Two cases of hereditary fructose intolerance are reported. In the first one the symtomatology has started with an acute hepatic failure; the second one has come to our observation with a diagnosis of intrahepatic biliary duct atresia. It is underlined the difficulty of a differential diagnosis, in infants with serious hepatic failure, between infectious, metabolic and others illnesses.
Hepatic granulomatosis is an anatomo-pathologic feature, rising from the aspecific answer of the liver to various antigenic, toxic and infectious noxae. One of the most frequent symptoms of this disease is a some weeks lasting fever. The most frequent etiology is proved to be infectious, particularly tuberculosis, and sarcoidosis. In this paper an analysis of the various diseases which can produce hepatic granulomas is presented, as well as the clinical case of patient with fever and hepatic disease for whom it has been possible to get to an etioilogic diagnosis of tuberculosis only through an hepatic biopsy and culture of liver tissue.