Drug Induced Liver Disease, Hepatobiliary Neoplasia, GI/Liver Miscellaneous Flashcards
DILD
Drug Induced Liver Disease
DILD Important?
- 10% of acute hepatitis admissions
- 6% of drug side effects
- 15-20% of fulminant & subfulminant hepatitis
- 20% of patients with jaundice & DILD will progress to fulminant failure
When does DILD happen?
- within 5-90 days
- after prolonged use
- triad of rash, eosinophilia & fever rare
Clinical Setting of DILD?
-asymptomatic
-fatigue
-abnormal liver enzymes
-jaundice
-hepatic failure
(repeated exposure not required, even small doses)
Intrinsic Hepatotoxin
- predictable injury
- dose dependent
- easily reproduced in animals
- carbon tetrachloride
Idiosyncratic Hepatotoxin
- unpredictable
- not in animals
- not dose dependent
- most medications
Hepatocellular Injury
acute hepatitis fulminant hepatitis chronic hepatitis steatohepatitis cirrhosis
Cholestatic Injury
Cholestasis-impariment of bile flow bland cholestasis acute & chronic cholangitis sclerosing cholangitis vanishing bile duct syndrome
Oral Contraceptives
-Idiosyncratic
-bland cholestasis
-estrogen decreases membrane fluidity
-dec. Na+, K+ ATPase activity & bile salt transport
vascular complications
hepatic vein thrombosis (Budd-Chiari)
Peliosis hepatis
Focal nodular hyperplasia
Hepatic Adenomas
Hepatocellualr carcinoma: rare with current doses
Occupational Chemicals
- obtain exposure history
- inhaled & contact
Angiosarcoma
25 patients per year
-hepatomegaly, inc. alkaline phosphatase
>70% pathogenesis is unknown
(polyvinyl chloride exposure?)
Acetaminophen in US
- 85% of OTC poisonings
- with ethanol, dec. glutathione, inc. P450 induction, inc. toxic metabolites, 2.5-4g may be hepatotoxic in alcoholics (unsafe at low doses with alcoholics)
- well tolerated in patients with non-alcoholic liver disease
- patients w/cirrhosis from other causes often have decreased P450 activity & normal glutathione level
Acetaminophen/Alcohol/Hospital
- discontinue ethanol
- hold acetaminophen
- N-acetylcysteine give 140mg/kg then 70mg/kg q 4 hrs x 17 doses
N-Acetylcysteine
- Therapeutic even with late presentation
- Dosing within 10-36hrs lowers mortality from 58 to 37% (acetaminophen)
- helpful in acute liver failure from non-acetaminophen etiologies `
Paracetamol
- restricted to 16 500mg tablets per patient in stores (32 tablets in UK)
- 72% drop in hospitalizations
- 74% dec. in deaths/transplantation
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- most common primary cancer of liver (75%)
- 5th most common neoplasm world wide
- common in areas with viral hep B is endemic
- 24,000/year in US due to inc. hep C
- bad prognosis, 5 year survival is less than 5%
- malignant epithelia neoplasm of liver composed of cells resembling hepatocytes
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Epidemology
- 3x more common in males
- 3x more common in Asian Americans & 1.5x more common in blacks
- 50-60 years old
- usually in patients with chronic liver disease (80% chronic viral hepatitis)
Common Sites for Liver Mets?
-colon, lung, breast, pancreas & stomach
Most common neoplasms in liver?
metastatic tumors
Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- decompensation of chronic liver disease
- jaundice, encephalopathy, ascites, bleeding
- others: mild-moderate upper abdominal pain, weight loss, diarrhea, bone pain, dyspnea
Classifications of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- based on microscopic/macroscopic appearance (doesn’t predict behavior)
- Predictors: size, differentiation, invasion & metastasis, presence or absence of cirrhosis
Gross Pathology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
highly variable
- yellow (from bile production), invasive
- multiple nodules (tumor originating in multiple sites), cholestasis (tumor obstruct ducts)
- 20% arise without cirrhosis
- highly vascularized (biopsy cause hemorrhage)
Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Histologic patterns
- Micro-Trabecular
- MacroTrabecular
- Acinar
- Solid
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Pain
from stretching of capsule
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Microscopy: 1
-well differentiated with trabeculae of cells resembling normal hepatocytes
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Microscopy: 2
-moderately differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma with bigger cells less resembling normal hepatocytes and very abnormal architecture
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Microscopy: 3
-moderately differentiated (still) but very large neoplastic cells and even more disturbed architecture
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Microscopy: 4
-poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma with pleomorphic dyscohesive neoplastic cells invading non-neoplastic liver from below
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Microscopy: 5
-anaplastic hepatocellular carcinoma with markedly pleomorphic cells with huge nuclei, some multinucleated, some bizarre
Alpha-Fetoprotein
-major fetal serum globulin
>20mcg/L in 60% of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (also elevated with acute/chronic liver injury, gonadal tumors, pregnancy, gastric cancers)
-specificity 91%
>200mcg/L specificity 99% (sen. 22%)
Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- surgical resection
- majority of patients not eligible due to tumor extent or underlying liver dysfunction
- various other treatments including injecting poison into the tumor (ethanol)
Hepatic Adenomas (Hepatomas)
- more common in patients who have taken or are taking anabolic steroids, androgenic steroids of estrogenic steroids
- commonly compress surrounding normal liver, which may cause some necrosis of it, with repair response forming a capsule
Hemangioma
- most common benign tumor in liver
- usually <2cm, commonly sucapsular
- composed of blood-filled vascular spaces
Hepatoblastoma
- rare malignant epithelial neoplasms in children
- malignant tumors in children have more primitive appearance, similar to embyronal appearance of site (blastoma)
Cholangiocarcinoma
- malignant epithelial neoplasm with biliary differentiation, arising from cholangiocytes
- uncommon (7,000/year in US) (3,000 extrahepatic)
- males, 50-70
- associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)
- extrahepatic 2/3 at bifurcation of common hepatic bile duct (Klatskin tumors)
- KRAS mutation in 50% of intra and 15% of extrahepatic, p53 mutation in 33%