Pancreatic Flashcards
Hepatic system functions to convert ____ and excrete ____
Bilirubin and ammonia
Hepatic system is the sole source of what protein?
Albumin
T/F Hepatic system synthesizes clotting factors and cholesterol.
True
Hepatic system detoxifies the body of what?
Drugs, ETOH, toxins
Hepatic system stores what?
Glycogen, vitamins, iron
Liver receives what % of cardiac output?
25%
The liver receives blood from what two places?
- Portal vein (from organs)
2. Hepatic artery
T/F The portal vein (from organs) provides approximately two-thirds of the blood supply, while the hepatic artery provides the rest.
True
What is the functional unit of the liver?
Liver lobule
S&S of hepatic disease include:
- Include GI symptoms - N&V, Diarrhea, Constipation, Heartburn, Abdominal pain, GI bleeding
- Edema/ascites
- Dark Urine
- Light/clay-colored stools
- Right upper quadrant abdominal pain
- Neurologic involvement: Confusion, muscle tremors, sleep disturbances, hyperreactive reflexes
- Hepatic Osteodystrophy (abnormal development of bone)
- Osteoporosis:
- Skin changes: Jaundice, increased bruising
Why does hepatic disease cause dark urine?
- Yellow-orange breakdown product of hemoglobin
2. Bilirubin accumulates in liver -> moves into blood -> increase in urine -> may suggest liver damage
Why does hepatic disease cause Light/clay-colored stools?
- Reduced ability of the liver to excrete bilirubin into the gut
T/F Jaundice (Icterus) is a symptom, not a disease.
True
What is jaundice
Bilirubin breakdown product of RBC in macrophages
yellow discoloration of the skin, sclerae, and mucous membranes.
How does jaundice occur?
- Cause: Increased bilirubin production or decreased processing of bilirubin
- Hepatocyte dysfunction (hepatitis, hepatic disease, tumor), bilirubin accumulation
- Impaired bile flow: caused by mechanical damage due to some obstruction of biliary tree
Treatment of jaundice?
- Resolve underlying disease
- Return to normal color suggests resolution
- Then activity and exercise can be resumed
How can hepatic disease cause neurologic involvement?
- Ammonia converted into urea in the liver
- Ammonia comes from the degradation of amino acids
- Ammonia is then catabolized by the liver generating urea
- ↓ urea production leads to ammonia accumulation in the blood and neurological symptoms
What is the most common neurologic abnormality associated with liver failure?
- Flapping tremor elicited by attempted wrist extension while the forearm is fixed
- Maximal on sustained posture
- Usually bilateral, though one side can be affected more
Where is MSK location of pain associated with the liver and biliary system?
Posterior thoracic pain [inter scapular, R shoulder, R upper trap, R subscapular]
What is hepatic osteodystrophy?
- Abnormal development of bone/osteoporosis in individuals with chronic liver disease
- Leads to osteopenia and osteoporosis
(Decrease/Increase) size and weight of liver with aging.
↓ size & weight of liver
(Decrease/Increase) processing time of liver with aging.
↑ processing time
How do blood test values change with aging.
Blood test value results remain unchanged [disease vs aging]
Describe healing of liver:
- Occurs quickly
- Complete parenchymal regeneration or scarring or a combination
- Chronic hepatic injury → fibrosis (cirrhosis)