간장 및 담도 : 알콜성 간상해에 관한 연구

Twenty-seven patients with alcoholic liver disease who had had a habbit of excessive alcohol consumption and had had a characteristic liver biopsy findings and had been diagnosed as alcoholic liver disease at Pusan National University Hospital during the period of March 1980 to August 1985 were studied. Their epidemiologic, laboratory, histologic and imaging studies were summarized as follows; 1) When the amount of daily alcohol intake is larger, or the duration of alcohol intake is longer, the incidence of alcoholic cirrhosis is more common. 2) The twenty-seven cases were 17 cases with fatty liver, 10 cases with alcoholic cirrhosis. 3) On the chemical liver function test, the value of rGPT & SGOT were elevated nearly all cases and the mean ratio of SGOT/SGPT was above 2. 4) On 99mTC liver scanning, 2 cases with alcoholic cirrhosis showed characteristic scanning change and 6 cases out of 9 cases of fatty liver showed minor non-homogeneity of hepatic uptake and hypertrophic pattern of the liver. 5) On CT scanning, 7 cases with fatty liver showed lower CT numbers than that of control(p<0.01)