Vascular lesions of the liver in sickle cell disease. A clinicopathological study in 26 living patients.

Background: Hepatic lesions in sickle cell disease have been studied essentially in autopsy series. Previous reports on living patients are rare and concern a limited number of cases. The aim of the present study is to report the clinical, biochemical, and hepatic histological findings in 26 living patients with sickle cell disease and hepatobiliary disease.

Epstein-Barr virus infection and hepatic fibrin-ring granulomas.

Hepatic fibrin-ring granulomas were the main histological finding in the liver of a 38-year-old man with Epstein-Barr virus primary infection. The patient presented with fever, hepatomegaly, icterus, abnormal liver tests, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and mononucleosis syndrome. There was neither enanthema nor lymphadenopathy or splenomegaly.