Post-Prandial Serum Hyaluronan Concentration in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease.

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  • IDOBE Youko
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine
  • MURAWAKI Yoshikazu
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine
  • IKUTA Yujiro
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine
  • KODA Masahiko
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine
  • KAWASAKI Hironaka
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tottori University School of Medicine

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  • Post Prandial Serum Hyaluronan Concentr

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Serum hyaluronan measurement is an option for diagnosing cirrhosis and assessing liver fibrosis, but it is of little use in the diagnosis of chronic hepatitis and compensated liver cirrhosis. It is generally known that intake of food results in elevation of the serum hyaluronan concentration. This work was designed to determine whether a change in the serum hyaluronan concentration after eating might reflect the hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cell impairment in chronic liver diseases. The chronological measurement of serum hyaluronan concentration after eating was performed after an overnight fast in 31 patients with chronic hepatitis, 31 cirrhotic patients, and 8 healthy subjects. The hyaluronan concentration in the loading test increased with the severity of the liver disease in the patients with chronic hepatitis, being significantly higher in the patients with moderate or a higher grade of necroinflammation than in those with a minimal grade, and also significantly higher in patients with stage 3 fibrosis than in those with stage 2 or less. The elevation of the concentration after eating in patients with liver cirrhosis was marked and the range did not overlap with that in patients with chronic hepatitis. Even in 14 patients with compensated liver cirrhosis whose hyaluronan concentration pre-prandially was less than 200 ng/ml, the range of the post-prandial peak concentration did not overlap with that in the chronic hepatitis patients. These results suggest that the evaluation of post-prandial serum hyaluronan concentration is potentially useful for assessing the grading of necroinflammation and staging of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis, as well as for diagnosing compensated liver cirrhosis.<br>(Internal Medicine 37: 568-575, 1998)

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  • Internal Medicine

    Internal Medicine 37 (7), 568-575, 1998

    一般社団法人 日本内科学会

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