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The admitting diagnoses are summarized in Table 1. Eighteen patients had a history of cardiac disease, 10 werejaundiced in the preoperative period, 10 underwent preoperative biliaryinstrumentation, nine underwent preoperative biliary drainage, five had ahistory of cirrhosis and/or portal hypertension, four had a history of chronicobstructive pulmonary disease, and three had a history of viral hepatitis.
The median preference value for HS1-No Symptoms, No Cirrhosis was 88% (interquartile range 75%-95%) corresponding to a 12% reduction from life without hepatitis C. In contrast the median preference value for HS5-Severe Symptoms, Cirrhosis was only 18% (interquartile range 8%-30%).
These chronically infected people are at high risk of death from cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer, which both kill about 1 million people each year.
The co-existence of liver disease and the presence of circulating AMAs in Sjögren's patients sera has been pointed as an indicator that liver pathology might be autoimmune and similar to that of primary biliary cirrhosis [ 4 7 8 10 ] . In previous studies, a pericholangial lymphocytic infiltration similar to that found in stage I of primary biliary cirrhosis, has been reported in 1°SS with abnormal liver function tests or positivity for AMA [ 4 7 ] . In our review of cases, we found predominance in hepatocellular liver damage rather than cholestatic disease, which would argue against a PBC-type of liver damage.
Even the presence of hepatitis C, without symptoms or cirrhosis (HS 1), was judged to carry a 12% decrement from life without HCV.
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