Congenital hepatic fibrosis Congenital hepatic fibrosis Congenital hepatic fibrosis is an inherited fibrocystic liver disease associated with proliferation of interlobular bile ducts within the portal areas and fibrosis that do not alter hepatic lobular architecture. The fibrosis would affect resistance in portal veins leading to portal hypertension. The condition is usually congenital, but sporadic cases have also been reported. It may be associated with other congenital defects, commonly with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, the most severe form of PKD. Some suggest that these two conditions are one disorder with different presentation. Embryogenically, congenital hepatic fibrosis is due to malformation of the duct
Nominalized adjective number and nominative case. "Den Alten" is a similar inflection but in the accusative case. The nominalized adjective is derived from the adjective "alt" and surfaces as it does by taking the appropriate inflection. Like in English, adjectival nouns are used as a plural definite ("the unemployed") and with nationality words ("the Swedish"). However, Swedish does not require "one or ones" with count nouns ("The old cat is slower than the new (one)"). The use of inflection, which incorporates the number and the gender of the noun, allows Swedish to avoid the need for a visible noun to describe a