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[Symptomatic primary biliary stenosis without cholestasis].

M R Velicia Llames·J M González Hernández·P Fernández Orcajo·C Sanz Santacruz
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The case of a 59-years old patient with typical clinical manifestations of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC): pruritus, asthenia, arthralgias and dry syndrome, with skin pigmentation and AMA positivity, hypergammaglobulinemia and an elevation of IgM is presented. Liver biopsy was compatible with stage II PBC. No analytical data of cholestasis, has been seen over 26 months of follow up with normal transaminases, alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase and cholesterol. The absence of cholestasis in the presence of symptoms is of interest.

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M R Velicia Llames, J M González Hernández, P Fernández Orcajo, C Sanz Santacruz. [Symptomatic primary biliary stenosis without cholestasis].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7627824/

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