Absence of peliosis hepatis in patients receiving testosterone enanthate
Saheb, F.
Hepato-Gastroenterology 27(6): 432-440
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0172-6390 PMID: 7203375 Document Number: 162969
Fifty-two autopsies of patients who had undergone hemodialysis and had received testosterone enanthate were reviewed for evidence of peliosis hepatis [a rare condition of unknown etiology characterized by blood-filled lacunar spaces in the liver] and liver neoplasms. Eight (15%) pathologic livers were isolated. No peliosis, adenoma or hepatoma was identified. Unlike the 17-alpha derivatives of testosterone, testosterone enanthate is seemingly not associated with morphologic changes in the liver. [Potential drug toxicity of testosterone enanthate was discussed].