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Lecture 13 Flashcards

1
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What are the 4 main anatomical units of the liver

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Hepatocytes Bile duct system Vascular system Kupffer cells

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What is the functional organisation of the liver

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Blood flows from portal triads around periphery towards the central vein in the centre of the lobule Bile drains from hepatocytes to portal triads at centre

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3
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What are periportal hepatocytes affected by

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Direct acting toxins

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What are periacinar hepatocytes affected by

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Activated toxins, hypoxia

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5
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What is hepatobiliary injury

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Injurious agents may enter liver and biliary system by - Haematogenous - Retrograde biliary entry from GIT - Direct penetration from trauma

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6
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What may hepatobiliary injury cause

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Inflammation, degeneration (reversible) or apoptosis or necrosis (irreversible)

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7
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What are the defence towards hepatobiliary injury

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Kupffer cells in sinusoids Biliary tree - Mucosal immunity: IgA - Flow of bile - Sphincter at end of common bile duct

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What is seen grossly with acute cellular degeneration: Acute swelling

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Liver is pale and swollen

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9
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What is seen histologically with acute cellular degeneration: acute swelling

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Cells are pale, swollen and finely vacuolated

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What do you see grossly with fatty change

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Liver is pale, yellowish, large, rounded edges

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What do you see histologically with fatty change

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Cells have large lipid vacuoles, nuclei pushed to the side

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12
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What is the nature and distribution of degeneration, necrosis and inflammatory lesions in the liver affected by

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Route of entry Type of injurious agent Predilection for particular cell types Host response

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13
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What is the patterns of hepatocellular degeneration and necrosis

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Random - no pattern to the damage - e.g. haematogenous infectious agent Zonal patterns - Periaciner/centrolobular - toxins that require activation, anaemia, heart failure - Midzonal - Massive - necrosis of entire lobule

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14
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What is cholecystitis

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Inflammation of gall bladder

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15
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When classifying liver/biliary disease, what should you consider

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  • Distribution and pattern of involvement - Types of inflammatory cells if present - Evidence of degeneration, necrosis or fibrosis - Evidence of regeneration - Presence of etiologic agent - Severity - Duration
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16
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What is seen in acute hepatitis

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Often random distribution of inflammation - Often neutrophils esp if bacterial - May be lymphocytes if viral - Hepatocellular necrosis +/- apoptosis

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What is seen in chronic hepatitis

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Persistence of antigenic stimulus - Accumulation of mononuclear cells - Maybe also be neutrophils present - Fibrosis and biliary hyperplasia - May get regeneration of hepatocytes

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18
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What is cholangitis

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Inflammation centred on biliary tract

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19
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What is cholangiohepatitis

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Inflammation around portal triads that also extends into liver parenchyma

20
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What are the responses of the liver due to injury

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Regeneration Fibrosis Biliary hyperplasia Cirrhosis Hepatic failure

21
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What is the cirrhosis liver

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Diffuse process characterised by fibrosis and the conversion of the normal liver architecture into structurally abnormal lobules

22
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What are the responses of liver injury (fibrosis)

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  • Increased ECM within the liver - Common in chronic/repetitive liver damage - Often severely impairs hepatic function - Pattern may assist identification of type of insult: periacinar, periportal, multifocal
23
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What are the responses of liver injury (bile duct hyperplasia)

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  • Proliferation of new bile ducts in periportal area - Nonspecific response to liver injury
24
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What are the major determinants of the final outcome of liver injury

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  • Whether hepatocellular injury is sustained or repetitive - Severity and extent of fibrosis - How much of the liver’s framework remains on which regeneration can take
25
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What does hepatocellular loss result in

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Small liver

26
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What does hepatocellular hyperplasia result in

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Randomly distributed regenerative nodules

27
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What is variable fatty change due to

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Disturbances in liver lipid metabolism

28
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Acute cellular degeneration: acute swelling in liver

29
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Acute swelling in liver

30
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Fatty change

31
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Fatty change

32
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Random hepatocellular injury

33
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Zonal hepatocellular injury: accentuation of the normal lobular pattern

34
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Zonal hepatocellular injury: periacinar/centrolobular necrosis

35
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Massive necrosis

36
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Periportal necrosis

37
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Midzonal necrosis

38
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Massive necrosis

39
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Massive necrosis

40
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Regeneration: stem cell hyperplasia and biliary hyperplasia

41
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Chronic nodular hyperplasia

42
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Periportal fibrosis and bile duct hyperplasia

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44
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Cirrhosis

45
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Cirrosis

46
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Cirrhosis

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