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Mixed connective tissue disease associated with idiopathic portal hypertension and chronic thyroiditis

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We report a patient with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) associated with idiopathic portal hypertension (IPH) and chronic thyroiditis. The patient was a 68-year-old Japanese woman who was admitted to our hospital for treatment of bleeding esophageal varices. She had previously exhibited Raynaud's phenomenon and had had arthritis for about 30 years. She also had had high titers anti-U1 of ribonucleoprotein (RNP) anti-single strand-DNA autoantibodies for 2 years, and had been diagnosed with MCTD 1 year previously. The bleeding from esophageal varices was successfully stopped by endoscopic injection sclerotherapy. Results of laboratory examinations, imaging examinations, and laparoscopy, including liver biopsy, indicated that the esophageal varices were caused by portal hypertension due to IPH. The patient also had a diffusely firm and enlarged goiter and hypothyroidism, and she exhibited anti-thyroid microsomal antibodies and anti-thyroglobulin antibodies, she was diagnosed as having a complication of chronic thyroiditis. This association of MCTD, IPH, and chronic thyroiditis is quite rare and provides a unique opportunity to observe immunological involvement in the pathogenesis of IPH.

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  1. First Department of Internal Medicine, Okayama University School of Medicine, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, 700, Okayama, Japan

    Shoji Hirasaki, Norio Koide, Kozo Ujike & Takao Tsuji

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawaken Saiseikai Hospital, 1-16-4 Sakuramachi, 760, Takamatsu, Japan

    Hiromichi Ogawa, Toshihiro Wada & Atsuhiko Sato

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Hirasaki, S., Koide, N., Ogawa, H. et al. Mixed connective tissue disease associated with idiopathic portal hypertension and chronic thyroiditis. J Gastroenterol 32, 808–811 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02936959

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