Abstract

Fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis is a well-described syndrome in patients with immunodeficiency and chronic hepatitis B. It is clinically, biologically, and histologically characterized by rapidly progressive hepatic failure, a mildly elevated serum aminotransferase level, an extensive periportal fibrosis associated with intense cholestasis, mild inflammatory cellular infiltrate, no cirrhosis, and a high hepatocellular level expression of B viral antigens. This syndrome reflected a direct hepatocytopathic injury linked to high intrahepatic viral antigen expression. Because the syndrome of fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis has not been described in chronic hepatitis C, we report the first well-characterized case in a renal transplant patient with chronic hepatitis C and discuss the clinical and pathogenic implications of such a syndrome in this setting.

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