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Alcoholic Liver Disease Flashcards

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⚡⚡ MOST COMMON CAUSE of LIVER CIRRHOSIS IN INDIA

⚡⚡ MOST COMMON CAUSE of LIVER CIRRHOSIS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES

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⚡⚡ MOST COMMON CAUSE of LIVER CIRRHOSIS IN INDIA
🎯 ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE

⚡⚡ MOST COMMON CAUSE of LIVER CIRRHOSIS IN WESTERN COUNTRIES
🎯 HCV > ALD

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1 Standard.Drinks

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14 gm Alcohol
18ml of 100% alcohol

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Recommended Safe Limit

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♂️: ≤ 2 Standard Drink
✨ 20-40 gm/day

♀️: ≤ 1 Standard Drink
✨ 16-30 gm/day

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⭐ How much ml of BEER is Standard Drink? (5%)

⭐ How much ml of WINE is Standard Drink? ( 12%)

⭐ How much ml of VODKA, GIN, RUM, WHISKEY is Standard Drink? (40%)

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⭐ How much ml of BEER is Standard Drink? (5%)
🎯 350 ml

⭐ How much ml of WINE is Standard Drink? ( 12%)
🎯 150 ml

⭐ How much ml of VODKA, GIN, RUM, WHISKEY is Standard Drink? (40%)
🎯 44 ml

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When does a person develops ALCOHOLIC liver DISEASE?

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Male:
✨ > 21 standard drinks/wk for ≥ 2 year
✨ > 210 gm/week for ≥ 2 year

Female:
✨ > 14 standard drinks/wk for ≥ 2 year
✨ > 140 gm/week for ≥ 2 year

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Pathogenesis of ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE

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Effects of ⬆️ NADH DUE TO: Alcohol

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Indicates ENERGY FULL STATE in Liver
⬇️
Energy Synthesis
⬇️
Fat synthesis⬆️
⬇️
Steatosis & Steatohepatitis⬆️

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ALCOHOLIC Liver DISEASE Spectrum

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  1. Fatty Liver (Steatosis)
  2. Alcoholic Hepatitis (Steatohepatitis)
  3. Cirrhosis
  4. HCC
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⚡⚡ MOST COMMON HEPATOTOXIN causing ACUTE LIVER FAILURE

⚡⚡ MOST COMMON HEPATOTOXIN causing CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE

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⚡⚡ MOST COMMON HEPATOTOXIN causing ACUTE LIVER FAILURE
🎯 ACETAMINOPHEN

⚡⚡ MOST COMMON HEPATOTOXIN causing CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE
🎯 Alcohol

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⭐ DIRECT HEPATOTOXIN

⭐ INDIRECT HEPATOTOXIN

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⭐ DIRECT HEPATOTOXIN
🎯 Alcohol

⭐ INDIRECT HEPATOTOXIN

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Laennac CIRRHOSIS seen in

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⭐ Alcoholic CITRHOSIS
SHOWS HOBNAIL PATTERN

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HOBNAIL in MEDICINE

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⭐ HOBNAIL PATTERN: ALCOHOLIC CIRRHOSIS (Laennac)

⭐ HOBNAIL CELLS: Collecting Duct (OR) Bellini Duct RCC

⭐ HOBNAIL CELLS: Clear Cell Ovarian Tumour

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Identify

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Mallory Hyaline Bodies
(OR)
Mallory Denk Bodies
✨ Eosinophilic Inclusion in Hepatocytes

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Composition of Mallory Hyaline Bodies

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Intermediate Filaments like CK8 & CK18

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Mallory Hyaline Bodies found in
🧠⚡ New Indian WATCH⚡

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  1. NASH
  2. Indian Childhood Cirrhosis
  3. Wilson’s disease
  4. Alpha 1 antitrypsin Disease
  5. Alcoholic Liver Disease
  6. Tumours: HCC
  7. 1° biliary Cirrhosis
  8. hyperplasia: Focal Nodular
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Decreased Attenuation in CT Liver

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Fatty Liver

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USG feature of Alcoholic Fatty Liver

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⬆️ LIVER ECHOGENICITY

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How to differentiate AFLD & NAFLD

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  1. H/O Alcoholic Liver Disease
  2. LFT is deranged (AST > ALT)
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⚡⚡ MOST COMMON Presentation of ALCOHOLIC fatty liver

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Hepatomegaly ± Pain

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Liver Profile of ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER

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  1. AST/ALT > 1
  2. Moderate ⬆️ in ALT & AST
  3. GGT ⬆️ ⬆️
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🧑🏻‍⚕️ Clinical Features of ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS

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Constitutional symptoms (Fever, Fatigue, Anorexia & Tachycardia)
➕
1. Tender Hepatomegaly
2. Jaundice
3. Splenomegaly
4. ASCITES (Portal HTN)
5. Evidence of Liver Failure

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LFT in ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS

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  1. AST & ALT ⬆️ (2-7 x Normal)
  2. AST/ALT ≥ 2:1
  3. PT/INR ⬆️
  4. Bilirubin ⬆️
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Alcoholic Hepatitis can be seen on TOP of Liver CIRRHOSIS

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Indication of treatment in ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS

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Discrimination Factor ≥ 32

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Maddrey Discrimination Score used in

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Alcoholic HEPATITIS
✨ For indication of initiation of STEROIDS

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Maddrey Discrimination Score

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= 4.6*(Prothrombin time - Control Prothrombin Time) ➕ Total Serum Bilirubin

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🚫 CONTRAINDICATION of STEROIDS even if MADDREY DISCRIMINATION SCORE ≥ 32

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  1. Active UGI Bleed
  2. Active Infection
  3. HBV / HCV
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💊💉 MANAGEMENT of ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS

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  1. Prednisolone: 40mg/day * 18/days ➕ Taper in 16 days
    ⬇️
    Assess after 1 week with Lille’s Score
    ⬇️
    No improvement: Stop Steroids
  2. Pentoxyfylline (PDE ⛔)
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Lille’s score

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Used to assess Response to STEROIDS in ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS

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MELD Score > 11 indicates

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Mortality in 30 days

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ABIC Score

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Modification of MELD Score

✨ AGE
✨ Bilirubin
✨ INR
✨ Creatinine

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ALCOHOLIC CIRRHOSIS
Characteristic Features

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✨ Parotid Enlargement
✨ Dupuytren’s contracture

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Microvesicular Steatosis
Causes
🧠⚡READ ⚡

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  1. Reye’s Syndrome
  2. Early ALCOHOLIC liver disease
  3. Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy
  4. Drugs & Toxins
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Macrovesicular Steatosis
🧠⚡NOC PLz ⚡

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  1. NASH
  2. Obesity
  3. C HEPATITIS CHRONIC infection
  4. Protein Energy Malnutrition
  5. Late ALCOHOLIC Liver Disease
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Periportal Predominant Macrovesicular Steatosis
🧠⚡ Total SPACE⚡

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  1. Total Parenteral Nutrition
  2. Starvation
  3. Phosphorus poisoning
  4. AIDS
  5. Chronic Hepatitis C
  6. Exogenous Steroids

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