Fatty liver

Fatty liver, alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency are all disorders that occur as a result of any damage to the liver. Liver damage can be many factors, but some of these disorders is not known how damage.

STEATOSIS hepatis

(Fatty liver)

Fatty liver is excessive accumulation of fat (lipid) inside liver cells.

Sometimes the cause of fatty liver is not known, especially in infants. Generally, the known causes of liver damage in some way.

Fatty liver usually causes no symptoms. Rarely causes jaundice, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and tenderness.

Physical examination shows that the increased liver without any symptoms suggests fatty liver. Diagnosis can be confirmed by liver biopsy, with a long hollow needle is used to obtain a small tissue sample under a microscope to search.

The mere presence of excessive fat in the liver is not a serious problem. Treatment is directed removal of the causes and treatment of the causal disorder. Repeated damage to the liver to toxic substances such as alcohol may eventually lead to transition fatty liver to cirrhosis.

Known causes of fatty liver

• Thickness

• Diabetes mellitus (diabetes)

• Chemicals and drugs (such as alcohol, corticosteroids, tetracycline, valproic acid, methotrexate, carbon tetrachloride and yellow phosphorus)

• Poor nutritional status and food with enough protein

• Pregnancy

• Vitamin A poisoning

• Surgical intervention in the small intestine in terms of creating a bypass (the bypass)

• Cystic fibrosis (probably coupled with poor ishranjenošću)

• Inherited defects of glycogen metabolism, galactose, tyrosine, or homocysteine

• Lack of medium-long chain arildehidrogenaze

• Lack of cholesterol esterase

• storage disease fitanske acid (Refsumova disease)

• A-betalipoproteinemija

• Reyeov syndrome