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[Severe jaundice in Legionnaires' disease: a case with early hepatic biopsy].
Gastroentérologie Clinique et Biologique 1987 March
Although liver tests are frequently disturbed in Legionnaires' disease, jaundice occurs rarely except as a terminal event. The authors report the case of a 68 year-old man with jaundice as a presenting feature of the disease. Jaundice deepened rapidly until death a few days later. Drugs and other causes of cholestasis could be ruled out. An early liver biopsy was performed. The liver was histologically normal except for mitochondrial margination in the hepatocytes. No Legionella could be demonstrated by direct fluorescent assay. These findings suggest that: jaundice in Legionnaires' disease is not related to direct bacterial insult, cholestasis is probably consecutive to endotoxinemia, the mitochondrial margination, a rare histologic finding, could result from Legionnaires' disease. This last point needs confirmation by further studies.
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