alcoholic liver disease

Question 1

what bodies do you see in alcoholic liver disease?

Answer 1

mallory hyaline bodies

Question 2

what kind of pneumonia is associated with alcoholics ?

Answer 2

klebsiella (kronenburg)

Question 3

what is fatty liver ? is it reversible? how long do you have to drink for?

Answer 3

2-3 days

yes it is reversible

Question 4

how long would you have to drink for to get hepatitis?

Answer 4

4-6 weeks

Question 5

is hepatitis reversible ?

Answer 5

yes

Question 6

after years can get fibrosis. is this reversible?

Answer 6

no

Question 7

is cirrhosis reversible?

Answer 7

no

Question 8

what symptoms do you get in ALD?

Answer 8

malaise, nausea, jaundice, fever, sepsis, encephalopathy, ascites, renal failure, death

Question 9

how do fatty vacuoles appear in heatocytes ?

Answer 9

clear

Question 10

how would you get alcoholic hepatitis ? what is characteristic?

Answer 10

heavy drinking - hepatomegaly±fever±leucocytosis±hepatic bruit

Question 11

in alcoholic hepatitis, what is played down around cells?

Answer 11

collagen

Question 12

what is the treatment of cirrhosis?

Answer 12

abstinence from alcohol

liver transplant

Question 13

how is necrosis described ?

Answer 13

micronodular cirrhosis with abundant white scarring

Question 14

in cirrhosis, what is separating regenerative nodules?

Answer 14

defined bands of cirrhosis

Question 15

what score determines risk of malnutrition?

Answer 15

MUST score

Question 16

what would AST/ALT ratio be like in an alcoholic

Answer 16

greater than 1 (although it can be cirrhosis of any cause)