Liver Cirrhosis With Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis: A Case Report
Emery Boudreau, Rosemarie Matte, Christian Wilke · 2025
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Description
Emery Boudreau, Rosemarie Matte, and Christian Wilke report a surgical surprise: a rare cocooning disease found coating a man's liver, in this 2025 case report. The 72-year-old, living with alcohol-related cirrhosis, a single kidney, and a year of right-sided abdominal pain, went to surgery for what looked like gallstones.
Inside, the team found dense fibrous tissue, one to two centimeters thick, sheathing the liver, with matching deposits on the colon and scattered across the abdominal lining. They deferred the gallbladder removal and took biopsies instead. The tissue diagnosis was encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis, a condition that normally follows years of peritoneal dialysis or a transplant, usually around the small bowel. This patient had neither exposure. The authors present the case as a prompt to widen thinking about where and why this scarring arises.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Emery Boudreau, Rosemarie Matte, Christian Wilke |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |