Hepato-lienal fibrosis without cirrhosis: non-cirrhotic intrahepatic portal hypertension.

John McMichael’s multisystem interests

“…It may be silent; or it may cause hypersplenism; or lead to pre-sinusoidal portal hypertension (Sherlock, 1968a). It would be un- charitable to leave the spleen without paying tribute to it as the only useful source of Siltzbach-Kveim antigen (Siltzbach, 1961;Anderson et al, 1963).…”