The Incidence of Portal Cirrhosis and Fatty Metamorphosis in Patients Dying with Diabetes Mellitus

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THERE is a discrepancy in the literature regarding the incidence of portal cirrhosis in patients suffering from diabetes mellitus. It was therefore considered advantageous to study the livers from diabetic patients autopsied at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.Schleusner1 reviewed 355 autopsy protocols of diabetic patients in Hamburg dying between 1930 and 1936. He found 45 cases (12.7 per cent) with macroscopic evidence of cirrhosis. He noted that only a third were advanced and diagnosed clinically. The diabetes antedated the cirrhosis in 20 available clinical histories. At the other extreme, Joslin et al.2 reported cirrhosis to be an uncommon complication, . . .

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