Liver (LS) Flashcards
- necrosis/degeneration of the liver
- most common response to hepatic injury
Hepatosis
What 2 things can trigger caspase activation → Apoptosis?
- TNF-a
- Fas Ligand
List the 3 morpholoical patterns of hepatocellular degeneration.
- Random
- Zonal
- Massive
Which morphological pattern is of diagnostic importance but of little significance on hepatic fxn?
Random hepatocellular degeneration/necrosis
Causes of Random Hepatocellular Degeneration?
(3)
- Bacteriema
- Septicemia
- Viruses
“Sawdust Liver” in Cattle is an example of what pattern of hepatocellular degeneration?
random hepatocellular degeneration/necrosis
Lesion of “Sawdust Liver” in cattle?
minute, yellowish foci of coagulative necrosis distributed throughout liver
Causes of Centrilobular Hepatocellular Degeneration/ Necrosis?
(5)
- Hypoxia
- Right sided HF
- Rift Valley fever
- ICH
- Toxic
Necrosis of an entire hepatic lobule or contiguous lobule.
(ALL hepatocytes w/in affected lobule are necrotic)
Massive Hepatocellular Degeneration/Necrosis
Causes of Massive Hepatocellular Degeneration/Necrosis?
(4)
- Vit E, Se deficiency → pigs
- Toxic
- Plants
- Chemicals
Lesions of Massive Hepatocellular Degeneration/Necrosis?
extreme periacinar necrosis w/ remaining normal zones
Which of the 3 zones of the hepatocyte is most well nurished?
Zone 1
(Periportal)
List 2 diseases that are examples of massive hepatocellular degeneration/necrosis?
- Hepatosis dietetica ⇒ swine
- Massive Liver Necrosis ⇒ sheep
Characteristics of Hepatosis dietetica in Swine?
(4)
- Vitamin E/Se deficiency
- hemorrhagic massive necrosis
- deep red, friable liver
- may have ascites, “mulberry heart dz” & “ white mm. dz”
Characteristics of Massive Liver Necrosis in Sheep?
- areas of California
- Birdfood Trefoil (Lotus tenuis)
- hepatoxicity
- Photosensitization
How does hepatic regeneration take place?
replication of mature hepatocytes → incr. in lobular size
What 2 factors stimulate hepatocyte replication?
- TGF-a
- Hepatocyte GF
What factor inhibits hepatocyte proliferation?
TNF-B
When will scarring occur during hepatic regeneration?
If the normal extracellular matrix scaffolding is damaged
The space of Disse holds _____ ______ that are responsible for producing collagen.
stellate cells
(or Ito cells, lipocytes)
Hepatic fibrosis?
overall increase in the extracellular matrix w/in the liver
What are Stellate cells normally responsible for?
primary storage site for retinyl esters (Vit A)
What happens to stellate cells (Ito cells/lipocytes/HSCs) when the liver is injured?
become activated → change phenotype to myofibroblast type →
synthesize collagen types: I, III, & IV → hepatic fibrosis
Pathogenesis of Fibrosis?
HSC change & start making collagen → fibrosis → progressive bridging→nodular regeneration
Which form of hepatic necrosis if more likely to impair hepatic function?
- Bridging fibrosis (from one portal tract to another)
Migrating nematode larvae lead to what form of fibrosis?
focal or multifocal hepatic fibrosis
(random)
Definition of Cirrhosis?
diffuse hepatic fibrosis w/ hyperplastic nodule formation
Term that refers to proliferation of new biliary ducts w/in portal areas & periportal regions
Biliary hyperplasia
What is the hallmark of Cirrhosis?
total absence of any normal lobular architecture
Lesions characteristic of Cirrhosis?
(4)
- total loss of normal lobular architecture
- shrunken, fibrotic, mulit-nodular nodules
- regenerative nodules
- “bunch of grapes” + shunts
Causes of Cirrhosis?
(4)
- chronic toxicity
- obstruction
- Right sided heart failure → chronic congestion
- chronic hepatitis
Which pattern of Cirrhosis is usually assocaited with acute toxic hepatitis?
Portal Cirrhosis
(Hobnail liver)
Which pattern of Cirrhosis shows scarring around central veins & generally lacks the essential features of cirrhosis?
Cardiac Cirrhosis
What are some possible consequences of hepatic dysfunction & failure?
(7)
- Icterus/jaundice
- Hepatic coma
- Metabolic disturbacnes
- Vascular & hemodynamic alterations
- Cutaneous manifestations
- Hepatorenal syndrome
- Accumulation of wastes
List the species & condition where hepatic encephalopathy is common?
(3)
- Ruminants & horses → hepatic failure
- Dogs & Cats →congenital portosystemic shunts
- ALL → end stage liver dz. (cirrhosis)
List the 2 metabolic disturbances of hepatic failure!
- bleeding tendencies
- hypoalbuminemia
Causes of hypoalbuminemia?
(2)
- Decreased production → severe, chronic liver dz.
- Portal Hypertension → ascites → pulls albumin out of vasculature
Pathogenesis of vascular & hemodynamic alterations of hepatic failure?
- Fibrosis→ increased resistance→portal hypertension→acquired portosystemic shunts
- increased pressure + decreased albumin= ascites
Name the syndrome that has CS of:
crusting, erosions & ulceration of the epidermis of muzzle, mucocutaneous areas of face, footpads & pressure points of the skin in some dogs with severe hepatic dz.
Hepatocutaneous syndrome
AKA
Necrolytic migratory erythema
AKA
superficial necrolytic dermatitis
List the typical cutaneous lesions associated with Hepatocutaneous syndrome.
(3)
- alopecia
- erythemia
- necrosis
Which form of photosensitization is hepatic dysfunction responsible for?
Secondary photosensitization
What animals does secondary or hepatogenous photosensitization occur in?
herbivores w/ impaired excretion of phylloerythrin in bile
Which breed of sheep are more prone to secondary photosensitization due to an inherited defect?
- Mutant Corriedale Sheep
- inability to excrete conjugated bilirubin
How do regenerative nodules arise? Age related?
- response to hepatic injury
- no
Congential porphyria is a metabolic disorder seen in what two species?
- Cattle
- Cats
Pathogensis of Congenital porphyria?
abnormal heme metabolism→abnormal excretion & accumulation of porphyrins → porphyrins are photodynamic
Give 3 examples of disturbances of liver growth.
- Nodular hyperplasia
- Regenerative nodules
- Cholangiocellular (biliary) hyperplasia
What species get Nodular hyperplasia? Hepatic Dysfunction?
- Dog → old
- No, does not cause significant hepatic dysfunction
How can you distinguish regenerative nodules?
- significant fibrosis
- only a single portal tract apparent
Hepatic lipidosis/fatty liver/steatosis is normal in what animals?
Chicks up to 3 days old
Causes of Fatty Liver?
(LOTS)
- Dietary- starvation, choline deficiency
- Ketosis
- Pregnancy toxemia
- Toxic & anoxic
- Bovine Fatty Liver Syndrome → fat cow syndrome
- Feline Fatty Liver Syndrome → fat cat won’t eat!
- Hyperlipidemia → horses & sheep
- Hepatic lipidosis → ponies, mini’s & donkeys
- Endocrine → DM, Hypothryoidism
Pathogenesis of Fatty Liver?
increase FAs/carbs → abnormal hepatocyte function → esterification of FFAs to TGs → decreased apoprotein synthesis →impaired secretion of lipoprotein
Lesions of Fatty Liver
(7)
- pale tan to yellow
- swollen
- friable
- enhanced lobular pattern (nutmeg liver)
- greasy
- bulging edges
- floats in formalin
Lesions of Glycogen Accumulation?
(4)
- hepatomegaly
- pallor
- fatty degeneration
- nutmeg liver
Glycogen accumulation in the liver occurs with metabolic alterations due to what 2 things?
- DM
- Glycogen storage Dz.
Steroid-Induced Hepatopathy is seen primarly it what species?
DOGS!!!