TABLE 5.
ER (EIA/RIBA II) Categories in Patients Listed by Frequency of Pathologic Diagnoses
| Number and (%) in each ER Category |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liver Diagnosis | Number of Patients |
0N | +P | +I | +N | OP | OI |
| Cryptogenic cirrhosis | 205 | 149 (73) | 36 (18) | 3 (1) | 5 (2) | 7 (3) | 5 (2) |
| Primary biliary cirrhosis | 178 | 167 (94) | 4 (2) | 0 (0) | 5 (3) | 0 (0) | 2 (2) |
| Sclerosing cholangitis | 112 | 100 (89) | 6 (5) | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | 2 (2) | 1 (1) |
| Malignancy | 110 | 93 (85) | 10 (9) | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 4 (4) | 2 (2) |
| Alcoholic cirrhosis | 103 | 82 (80) | 10 (10) | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | 4 (4) | 4 (4) |
| Cirrhosis—uncertain diagnosis | 102 | 74 (73) | 15 (15) | 0 (0) | 4 (4) | 2 (2) | 7 (7) |
| Chronic hepatitis B | 95 | 63 (66) | 14 (15) | 4 (4) | 11 (12) | 0 (0) | 3 (3) |
| Chronic NANB hepatitis | 86 | 32 (37) | 37 (43) | 2 (2) | 4 (5) | 7 (8) | 4 (5) |
| Acute hepatitis | 49 | 38 (78) | 3 (6) | 2 (4) | 5 (10) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) |
| α1 Antitrypsin deficiency | 29 | 23 (79) | 5 (17) | 0 (0) | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Budd-Chiari | 20 | 19 (95) | 1 (5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Autoimmune hepatitis | 17 | 13 (76) | 2 (12) | 0 (0) | 2 (12) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Wilson’s disease | 16 | 14 (88) | 1 (6) | 0 (0) | 1 (6) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Miscellaneous* | 60 | 51 (85) | 4 (7) | 1 (2) | 2 (3) | 0 (0) | 2 (3) |
| Total | 1182 | 918 (78) | 148 (12) | 15 (1) | 44 (4) | 26 (3) | 31 (3) |
*
The miscellaneous group of 60 included: secondary biliary cirrhosis (14), hemochromatosis (9), pediatric cirrhosis (6), Caroli’s disease (6), submassive hepatic necrosis (4), hemangioma (4), biliary atresia (3), congenital hepatic fibrosis (3), intrahepatic venoocchisive disease (3), cystic fibrosis (2), trauma to liver (2), chronic hepatitis (nonviral) (1), Byler’s disease (1), polycystic liver disease (1), and poisoning (1).
EIA = enzyme immunassay; NANB = non A, non B.