Lectures 17, 18: Intro to Liver and LFTs Flashcards

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Liver functions

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Excretion (biliubin, bile acids, drugs), immune function, growth factor, hormone production, hematopoiesis (fetal), synthesizes proteins (albumin, clotting factors), substrate metabolism, storage, metabolizes drugs

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Signs of liver failure

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Loss of clotting factors –> coagulopathy; impaired bilirubin clearance –> jaundice; impaired glucose mobilization –> hypoglycemia; impaired metabolite clearance/detox –> encephalopathy; altered blood flow regulation –> renal failure

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Signs of liver failure (2)

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Reduced clearance of bacteria from portal blood –> sepsis; decreased growth factor/albumin –> anemia, edema; altered metabolism of hormones –> feminization; obstruction to blood flow –> portal HTN

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The endothelium within the sinusoid of the liver is…

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Fenestrated

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What two specialized cells are in the sinusoid?

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Hepato-stellate cell encircling the microvasculature and the hepatocyte

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Liver macrophage specialized cell

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Hepatic Kupffer Cell

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Bile is secreted through the

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Canaliculi system

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Liver bloods supply and implications; __________ pressure/___________ capacitance

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Dual: 2/3 through portal vein, 1/3 through hepatic artery; low pO2, easy for areas near central vein to become hypoxic AND liver is RARELY infarcted; low pressure and high capacitance

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What drains into the portal vein? (3)

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Splenic, coronary, mesenteric

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Examples of acute injury and significance for transplant

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Tylenol, viral infection, idiopathic; may require transplant if severe, but if it resolves, liver will return to normal

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Examples of chronic liver injury and significance for transplant

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Viral infection, alcohol, obesity-related, autoimmune, metabolic overload, biliary obstruction; chronic liver injury is progressive and may be asymptomatic

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12
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Histology of cirrhosis

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Nodules surrounded by fibrous tissue

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13
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Complications of cirrhosis (5)

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Hepatic encephalopathy, ascities, portal HTN, hepatorenal syndrome, splenomegaly

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What tests reveal injury to hepatocytes?

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AST, ALT bili

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What tests reveal injury to bile ducts?

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Alkaline phosphatase, gammaGT, bili

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16
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Four classes of dx liver tests

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Liver enzymes, liver function tests, general systemic tests, liver imaging

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Liver enzymes tested

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AST, ALT, Alk Phos, Bili

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18
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Liver function tests

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Albumin, prothrombin time, platelets

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General systemic tests

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CBC, renal fxn tests (BUN/creatinine)

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Signs of chronic liver disease (9)

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Scleral icterus, spider angioma, glossitis, palmar erythema, digital clubbing, gynecomastia, excoriations (marks from itching), xanthelasma, ascites

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21
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What’s the most common cause of spider angiomata?

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Pregnancy due to estrogen

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Bilirubin must be greater than this level to cause jaundice…causes

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2.5 mg/dL; increased bilirubin production, impaired hepatic handling, or benign

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Two sources of bilirubin and %

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Erythrocytes (80%); non-hemoglobin hemoproteins (myoglobin, cytochromes, catalases; 20%)

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Describe bilirubin in plasma

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Unconjugated (insoluble), albumin-bound, total bilirubin = 1-1.5 mg/dL

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Four steps of bilirubin (blood to bile)
1. Hepatocellular uptake; 2. Intracellular binding; 3. Conjugation; 4. Excretion into bile canaliculus via MRP2 (multidrug resistance-associated protein 2)
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Does bilirubin enter the hepatocyte alone or with albumin?
Alone
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Enzymes of bilirubin conjugation
UGT = bilirubin-UDP-glucuronosyltransferase
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Injury to the hepatocyte tends to affect with step of the bilirubin?
Liver can conjugate but NOT EXCRETE bilirubin (MRP2 is impaired) --> CONJUGATED bilirubin backs up into sinusoid --> central venule --> systemic circulation
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Why is stool/urine the color it is?
Yellow urobilinogen (gets turned into brown stercobilin in colon)
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Bilirubin + intestine
In ileum/colon, unconjugated and reduced to urobilinogen --> 80% feces, 15% absorbed and re-excreted as bile, 5% excreted in urine
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Bilirubin + kidney
Conjugated bilirubin is filtered at glomerulus; with hepatobiliary dysfunction, conjugated bilirubin gets into kidneys --> darker urine
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Causes of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia (3)
1. Increased production of bilirubin, 2. Reduced hepatic clearance of bilirubin, 3. Inherited disorders
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Causes of increased production of bilirubin
Hemolysis, hematomas, ineffective erthropoiesis
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Causes of reduced hepatic clearance of bilirubin
Neonatal jaundice (due to hepatic immaturity, tx w/ phototherapy), breast milk jaundice (maternal progestational steroids inhibit conjugation), drugs (antibiotics)
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Inherited disorders of bilirubin conjugation (3)
Gilbert's syndrome, Crigler-Najjar type I and type II
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Describe Gilbert's syndrome: frequency and %, symptoms, histology, gene, and enzyme activity
Most common hereditary hyperbilirubinemias (7%), asymptomatic but aggrevated by stress, no histological changes, UGT1A1 gene mutation, 10-33% of normal enzyme activity
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Describe Crigler-Najjar Syndrome type I: mutation, enzyme activity, when it presents and complication, tx
Mutation in UGT1, no functional enzyme activity, appears neonataly, severe neurological impairment, fatal w/out transplant
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Describe Crigler-Najjar Syndrome type II: mutation, enzyme activity, tx
Mutation of UGT1A1, reduced but detectable enzyme activity, tx = phenobarbital to induce UGT
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Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia diseases (5 classes)
Genetic, chronic liver disease (cirrhosis), biliary obstruction, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, drug-induced cholestasis
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Genetic causes of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia diseases (3)
1. Dubin-Johnson syndrome, 2. Rotor syndrome, 3. Familial Cholestasis syndromes
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Describe Dubin-Johnson syndrome: mutation and presentation
Mutation in MRP2 with chronic intermittent jaundice and pigmented liver, scleral icterus, enlarged liver
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Describe Rotor syndrome
High total bilirubin with normal life expectancy (unknown mutation, not much known)
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Causes of biliary obstruction
Choledocholithaisis, neoplasms, extrinsic compression of biliary tree, inflammation/infection
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Describe intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: when in pregnancy, lab tests, does it go away?
2nd/3rd trimester, elevated ALT, bilirubin, bile acids; generally disappears after delivery but may reappear with other preg/estrogens
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Three most common scenarios of acute hepatocellular inury and LFTs
Ischemic injury ("shock liver" = trauma), drug-induced liver failure, acute viral hepatitis; elevated ALT, AST, some bilirubin, all else likely normal
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Five most common scenarios of chronic liver disease/cholestatic liver disease
Chronic viral hepatitis, NAFLD, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, biliary obstruction
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Cirrhosis: LFTs
ALT, AST, Alk Phos, GGTP, Bilirubin NORMAL or slightly elevated; elevated prothrombin time, low albumin
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Biliary obstruction: LFTs
ELEVATED Alk Phos, GGTP, bilirubin; normal or slightly elevated ALT, AST, fxn tests
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Chronic viral hepatitis and NAFLD: LFTs
Elevated ALT, AST, normal or slightly elevated cholestasis, normal fxn tests
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Alcoholic hepatits: LFTs
Elevated AST > ALT (specific to alcoholic), elevated cholestasis, normal fxn tests