Hepatitis sifilítica: una patología "poco frecuente"

Abstract

Syphilitic hepatitis: "a non-frecuent" pathology RESUMEN La Atención Primaria (AP) tiene un import a n t e papel en diversas patologías, que por su baja inci

Syphilitic hepatitis: should it be added to the algorithm of hepatogram alterations? Report of three cases

“…The literature on syphilitic hepatitis is scarce and in the form of reports and case series. [1][2][3][4][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] There is only one systematic review in which 73 articles published between 1951 and 2017 were includ- In this series the average age was 44 years, all were men, with cholestatic/ mixed pattern and one of them had HIV. In HIV-infected patients the prevalence of syphilitic hepatitis is 0.2-10% of the cases and, in general, this infection is contemplated within the differential diagnoses of liver profile alterations in this subgroup.…”