Acute Benign Hepatitis Due to Glycogen Hepatopathy

Abstract

Glycogen hepatopathy is a very rare and forgotten complication of poorly controlled type 1 diabetes mellitus. Glycogen hepatopathy may also present in type II diabetes mellitus, especially when managed with high doses of insulin. Although it is a benign condition, it is rarely diagnosed in a timely manner. It is characterised by hepatomegaly causing abdominal pain due to stretch on the liver capsule causing capsulitis, and derangement of liver enzymes. In this article we report a patient who presented with severe abdominal pain, hepatomegaly and transaminitis, the symptoms persisted for one year before the diagnosis of glycogen hepatopathy was made.