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KMID : 1103920130190040421
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Korean Journal of Hepatology
2013 Volume.19 No. 4 p.421 ~ p.425
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Three cases of glycogenic hepatopathy mimicking acute and relapsing hepatitis in type I diabetes mellitus
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Cha Jae-Hwang
Ra Sang-Ho
Park Yu-Mi
Ji Yong-Kwan
Lee Ji-Hyun
Park So-Yeon
Baik Soon-Koo
Kwon Sang-Ok
Cho Mee-Yon
Kim Moon-Young
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Abstract
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Glycogenic hepatopathy (GH) is an uncommon cause of serum transaminase elevation in type I diabetes mellitus (DM). The clinical signs and symptoms of GH are nonspecific, and include abdominal discomfort, mild hepatomegaly, and transaminase elevation. In this report we describe three cases of patients presenting serum transaminase elevation and hepatomegaly with a history of poorly controlled type I DM. All of the cases showed sudden elevation of transaminase to more than 30 times the upper normal range (like in acute hepatitis) followed by sustained fluctuation (like in relapsing hepatitis). However, the patients did not show any symptom or sign of acute hepatitis. We therefore performed a liver biopsy to confirm the cause of liver enzyme elevation, which revealed GH. Clinicians should be aware of GH so as to prevent diagnostic delay and misdiagnosis, and have sufficient insight into GH; this will be aided by the present report of three cases along with a literature review.
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KEYWORD
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Glycogen hepatopathy, Transaminase, Type I diabetes mellitus
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