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© 1985 Oxford University Press

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ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE IN THE ELDERLY: PRESENTATION AND OUTCOME

K. W. WOODHOUSE, Senior Registrar and O. F. W. JAMES, Consultant Physician

Department of Medicine (Geriatrics), Freeman Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN

We studied 34 patients with alcoholic liver disease presenting for the first time over the age of 60 years. Symptoms were usually non-specific including malaise (62%), anorexia (41%) and abdominal pain (38%). The most prominent sign was hepatomegaly (79%). Seventy-nine per cent of the patients had established cirrhosis at the time of presentation. For this group the prognosis was very poor, 48% died within one year of presentation.

accepted in revised form July 5, 1984.


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