Oral lichen planus and chronic liver disease: a clinical and morphometric study of the oral lesions in relation to transaminase elevation

Bagán JV , Aguirre JM, del Olmo JA, Milián A, Peñarrocha M, Rodrigo JM, Cardona F: Oral lichen planus and chronic liver disease: a clinical and morphometric study of the oral lesions in relation to transaminase elevation. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1994 Sep;78(3):33742.

Abstract
Serum transaminase levels (serum glutamicoxaloacetic transaminase or serum glutamicpyruvic transaminase) were found to be altered in 40 (21.39%) of 187 patients with oral lichen planus. The patients with oral lichen planus who had altered transaminase levels were on average older than those without liver disorders and exhibited a higher percentage of erosive lesions (p < 0.05) and tongue involvement. Histologically, no statistically significant differences
were noted in the extension of inflammatory infiltration or in connective tissue density; nevertheless, the latter was greater in patients without altered transaminase levels. Finally, among those patients with altered liver test results and erosive lichen planus, serum glutamicoxaloacetic transaminase and serum glutamicpyruvic transaminase levels were found to be higher than levels in those patients without erosions. This indicates that behavior of the oral lesions is more aggressive as the degree of liver alteration increases. We emphasize that of the 40 patients with altered transaminase levels (all later proved to reflect chronic hepatitis through complementary diagnostic methods), 28 had hepatitis C virus infection.

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