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A 51-year-old Caucasian man presents to your outpatient clinic with abnormal liver enzymes for several years. He is accompanied by his wife. He is asymptomatic without evidence of jaundice, fever or chills, weight loss. He has no past medical history and is on no prescribed medication. He denies any over the counter or herbal medicines. He does not drink significantly (once or twice a year) but smokes a packet of cigarettes a day and works as a salesman. He is happily married with grown up children. There is no history of intravenous drug use or cocaine. His father had Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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Ahmad, J. (2011). Cases 1–26. In: Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7085-5_1

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