Table 4.
Liver biopsy findings in recurrent hepatitis C and acute cellular rejection
Favors hepatitis C | Favors rejection |
Apoptotic (Councilman) bodies | Central venulitis |
Lymphoid aggregates | Perivenular necrosis |
Kupffer cell hypertrophy | Inflammatory bile duct damage |
Mononuclear portal inflammation | Biliary epithelial senescence changes |
Ballooning degeneration |