Liver 1 Flashcards
Functions of stellate cells
Storage of vitamin A + Production of collagen
The commonest cause of fatty liver disease in western world is?
ALD
How does alcohol produce liver injury?
Fatty liver => High acetaldehyde => injured hepatocytes.
+ Stimulation of collagen synthesis leads to fibrosis.
How does liver injury occur in NAFLD?
- Hepatic fat accumulation.
- Hepatic oxidative stress.
Hepatic lipid perioxidation occurs in?
NAFLD
AST + ALT are elevated in 90% of patients with?
NASH
The most reliable diagnostic tool for NAFLD and NASH
Liver biopsy
Which type of steatosis is more common?
- Macrovesicular.
- Microvesicular.
Macrovesicular
Hepatocyte swelling (ballooning) + necrosis + mallory bodies + cytokeratin seen as eosinophilic cytoplasmic lumps are seen in ?
- Steatohepatitis.
- Steatosis.
- Cirrhosis.
- All of the above.
Steatohepatitis
Fibrosis in Steatohepatitis is most commonly?
- Peri portal.
- Peri venular and sinusoidal.
- There is No fibrosis in Steatohepatitis.
B
Bridging fibrosis is a microscopic feature of?
Steatohepatitis
Bridging fibrous septa + Parenchymal nodules + Disruption of the architecture of the entire liver are the main morphological Characteristics of ?
Cirrhosis
Which of the following will not cause a micronodular (<= 3mm) cirrhosis?
- Apha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
- Alcoholism.
- Hemochromatosis.
- Chronic viral hepatitis.
D ( also drugs)
A stain that is used to stain collagen fibers
Masson Trichrome
Viruses that are associated with hepatitis
CMV + EBV