Abstract

Asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy, or Jeune syndrome, is an autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia with multiorgan involvement. Most patients develop progressive respiratory insufficiency related to the abnormally small thorax and renal insufficiency. Other clinical manifestations include cystic lesions of the pancreas and retinal abnormalities. Hepatic abnormalities have been described both clinically and at autopsy, but the pathogenesis of the liver disease is not clear. A patient with Jeune syndrome developed complications because of progressive portal hypertension necessitating transplantation. We present a discussion of the gross and histopathologic findings in the explanted liver, along with a review of the pathology of liver disease in Jeune syndrome.

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