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Laennec’s cirrhosis is named after René Laennec a French physician and the inventor of the stethoscope. It is a disease of the liver in which the normal lobular architecture is lost with fibrosis and later nodular regeneration. Laennec’s cirrhosis can be associated with inflammatory polyarthritis most commonly affecting the shoulders elbows and knees. Osteoporosis soft tissue swelling in peripheral joints and sometimes calcific periathritis are seen.