Zieve syndrome

Classification according to ICD-10
K70.0	Alcoholic liver disease.
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The Zieve syndrome is characterized by a triad of symptoms :

• Hyperlipidemia
• hemolytic anemia and
• Alcohol-toxic liver damage with jaundice .

Sick people also often have upper right abdominal pain. The syndrome is mostly the result of excessive alcohol consumption.

It is treated by abstinence from alcohol and by diets high in carbohydrates and low in fat.

The syndrome was described by Leslie Zieve in 1958.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herbert Renz-Polster, Steffen Krautzig, Jörg Braun (eds.): Basic textbook internal medicine. Elsevier, 2011, ISBN 3437410555 , p. 702.
2. ↑ Leslie Zieve: Jaundice, hyperlipemia and hemolytic anemia: a heretofore unrecognized syndrome associated with alcoholic fatty liver and cirrhosis. In: Annals of internal medicine. Volume 48, Number 3, March 1958, pp. 471-496, ISSN  0003-4819 . PMID 13521581 .

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