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The disease may be discovered as an incidental finding in the elderly because of mild thrombocytopenia or splenomegaly, or it may present early in life with hepatosplenomegaly, thrombocytopenia, anemia, and bone lesions.
hepatomegaly) to well proven cases of liver disease [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 28 ] . Denko in 1960 reported that 12% of patients with SS had hepatosplenomegaly [ 29 ] . Other studies done in the 1960's also confirmed hepatomegaly in 18-20% of patients with SS [ 30 31 ] . In 1970, Whaley reported liver disease in 6% of patients with SS and mentioned an association with anti-mitochondrial antibodies [ 2 ] . In 1986, Tsianos and co-workers described 22 SS patients with gastrointestinal complications, called from a large cohort; only two patients had liver disease, each with chronic active hepatitis [ 4 ] . Other studies have reported variable prevalence [ 3 28 ] and different histopathological findings in liver biopsies ranging from cholestatic liver damage (stage I primary biliary cirrhosis) to chronic active hepatitis due to hepatitis C virus.