Tropical liver diseases in Egyptian children

ABSTRACT

Each tropical region has its own spectrum of liver disease. In Egyptian children, this has yet to be defined. In an effort for such definition, we enrolled 516 biopsy-proven patients with chronic liver disease in a follow up study spanning over 3 years to diagnose tropical liver diseases in them and encountered 37 [7.2%] patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis, 32 [6.2%] with hepatic venoocclusive disease, 6 [1.2%] with hepatic fascioliasis, 2 [0.4%] with amoebic liver abscess and 2 [0.4%] with visceral leishnianiasis. Their clinicopathologic criteria were identified in an effort to clarify the natural history of tropical liver disease in our region