PAT 90- Flashcards
patterns of liver cell injury
- degenerative
- apoptosis
- necrosis of hepatocytes
- Regeneration of lost hepatocytes
- Scar Formation and Regression
how is the degeneration of liver cell injury
potentially reversible changes, such as
1. hydropic degeneration
2. accumulation of fat (steatosis)
3. bilirubin (cholestasis)
name of acidophilic apoptotic bodies in yellow fever
Councilman bodies
how the apoptosis occur in liver cells
- The hepatocytes undergo shrinkage,
- nuclear chromatin condensation (pyknosis),
- fragmentation (karyorrhexis),
- and cellular fragmentation into acidophilic apoptotic bodies
The principal cell type involved in scar
deposition in liver
hepatic stellate cell
what is the hepatic stellate cell in its quiescent form and in acute and chronic injury
In its quiescent form, it is a lipid (vitamin A) storing cell. However, in several forms of acute and chronic injury, the stellate cells can become activated and are converted into highly fibrogenic myofibroblast
viruses cause viral hepatitis
Epstein Barr virus [EBV], cytomegalovirus, and yellow fever virus
ABCDE hepatotropic viruses
hepatic viruses transmitted fecco oral
HAV
HEV
trasmission of HBV and HCV
a. By blood, blood components and contaminated instruments e.g. in intravenous (IV) drug abuse.
b. Sexual transmission
d. Transplacental transmission.
transmission of HDV
HDV infection can develop only when there is concomitant HBV infection
the most common cause of chronic hepatitis in Egypt
HCV
viral infection of increased hepatocellular carcinoma
HBV
causes fatal fulminant hepatitis in pregnant
women
HEV
hepatic viral infection do not cause chronic disease
HAV and HEV
hepatic viral infections are frequently sub-clinical
HAV and HBV
Acute asymptomatic infection with recovery in viral heaptitis based on
elevated transaminases, or by anti-viral antibody titers
Acute asymptomatic hepatic viral infection with recovery caused by
HAV and HBV
Acute symptomatic hepatic viral infection with recovery
HEV, HBV or HCV
The carrier state the of viral hepatitis caused by
HBV or HCV
Gross of acute viral hepatitis
Liver is enlarged and greenish yellow
Microscopic picture of acute viral hepatitis
- Liver cell injury :
* Hydropic degeneration (ballooning) of hepatocytes.
* Apoptosis of individual cells, resulting in acidophil bodies, usual with adjacent T cells (lobular hepatitis).
* Focal necrosis (drop out), leaving collapsed reticulin network behind.
Scavenger macrophages mark the sites of dopout.
* In severe cases, confluent necrosis occurs, commonly centrilobular, or even central-portal bridging necrosis. - Cholestasis:
Accumulation of bile in the liver cells and bile canaliculi (obstructed by swollen hepatocytes)
Kupffer cells engulf bile and undergo hyperplasia. - Portal tract inflammation: In the form of mild mononuclear cell infiltration.
Clinical picture of acute viral hepatitis
Nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain followed by jaundice.
gross of Acute Massive Necrosis
Shrunken liver, mottled yellow (necrosis) and red (hemorrhage) areas, with wrinkled capsule
microscopic picture of Acute Massive Necrosis
Massive diffuse liver cell necrosis, sinusoidal rupture,
inflammatory cells (lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells)
patient develop post necrotic cirrhosis
patient that have survived from Sub massive Necrosis
def of chronic hepatitis
Chronic hepatitis is defined by the presence of symptomatic, biochemical, or serologic evidence of continuing or relapsing hepatic disease for more than 6 months, with histologically documented inflammation and necrosis
Etiology of chronic hepatitis
- Viral etiology (most common): HBV (+ HDV) or HCV. Mixed infection may occur.
- Autoimmune: Caused by autoantibodies as antinuclear antibodies & anti-actin antibodies.
- Drug induced: Isoniazid, methyl dopa
- Metabolic diseases as :
(a) α 1 antitrypsin deficiency
(b) hemochromatosis
(c) Wilson’s diseases. - Cryptogenic (undetermined etiology).
Gross of chronic viral hepatitis
mild hepatomegaly
Def of chronic viral hepatitis
A chronic necro-inflammatory disease caused by** HCV or HBV**.
The pathological changes characteristically start at ‘the interface’, which is the **parenchymo- mesenchymal interface **between hepatic lobules and portal tracts
microscopic picture of chronic viral hepatitis
1) Inflammation: (in variable degrees)
* Portal inflammation: Expansion of the portal tracts by chronic inflammatory cells; mainly lymphocytes. Bile duct walls may be inflamed (mainly in HCV infection).
* Lobular inflammation (lobular hepatitis): Usually mild.
2) Necrosis: It may be:
* Piecemeal necrosis (interface hepatitis): This is inflammation with destruction of the liver cells at the limiting plates of liver lobules (i.e. the parenchymomesenchymal interface). The liver cells become detached.
* Spotty ( focal )
Confluent, bridging, or multiacinar necrosis occurs in severe cases.
* Apoptosis may also occur
3) Fibrosis: It may be:
Portal fibrosis, bridging fibrosis, or bridging fibrosis accompanied by regeneration nodules (cirrhosis)
Steatosis of hepatocytes related to
HCV
Ground glass hepatocytes related to
HBV
Complications of chronic viral hepatitis
- Post hepatitic cirrhosis.
- Liver failure.
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
Grading of Chronic Hepatitis based on
extent of interface hepatitis,
the degree of bridging necrosis,
the frequency of hepatocyte apoptosis
the density of portal inflammation
The most popular grading & staging systems are
- Ishak scores the grade out of 18, and the stage out of 6. 6/6 is cirrhosis.
- Metavir scores the grade from A0 to A4 and the stage from FO to F4. F4 is cirrhosis
solitary liver abscess
¨ Amoebic abscess.
¨ Infected hydatid cyst.
¨ Complicating cholecystitis.
¨ Traumatic (penetrating Injury)
Multiple liver abcesses
¨ Amoebic abscess.
¨ Abscesses of ascending cholangitis.
¨ Actinomycosis.
¨ Pyemic abscesses.
Etiology of amoebic liver abscess
Amoeba trophozoites enter portal venous radicals in colonic submucosa to reach liver
Gross of Amoebic Liver Abscess
§ Single, but may be multiple, large being mostly in right lobe.
§ Wall is necrotic & the lining is shreddy.
§ Its contents is a brown liquid material (chocolate pus).
microscopic picuture of Amoebic Liver Abscess
- Amoeba in the liver causes necrosis, which becomes secondarily infected & purulent (the grossly yellow pus quickly turns brown due to excessive hemorrhage).
- The wall of the abscess is composed of necrotic liver tissue with frequent vegetative forms of amoeba surrounded by a clear halo due to lytic enzymes secreted from the amoeba.
- The inflammatory reaction consists of lymphocytes, plasma cells & macrophages.
etiology of Ascending Cholangitic Abscesses
Caused by mixed flora: E coli, staphylococcus aureus & anaerobic bacilli
pathological features of Ascending Cholangitic Abscesses
- Multiple, yellow, small, abscesses,
- mostly in portal tract areas around the bile ducts.
- The bile ducts show all features of an acute suppurative Inflammation &
- their lumen contains pus
liver abscess lined by irregular yellow membrane
Pyemic Abscesses
GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE of liver
tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, bilharziasis and primary biliary cirrhosis
Def of liver cirrhosis
- Progressive necrosis of liver cells with destruction of liver architecture (framework).
- Repair in liver cells by regeneration (regeneration nodules) and in framework by fibrosis.
Etiology and Types of liver cirrhosis
1- Post-Hepatitic Cirrhosis: Chronic viral hepatitis B and C
2- Post-Necrotic Cirrhosis
3- Nutritional and Alcoholic Cirrhosis (Laennec’s Cirrhosis)
4- Primary biliary cirrhosis ( intrahepatic biliary obstruction )
5- Secondary Biliary Cirrhosis
6- Cirrhosis caused by congenital metabolic disorders
7- Cirrhosis due to chronic venous congestion of the liver (cardiac cirrhosis)
8- obstruction of hepatic veins due to veno-occlusive disease and budd-chiari
other name of Nutritional and Alcoholic Cirrhosis
Laennec’s Cirrhosis
causes of Post-Necrotic Cirrhosis
due to viral hepatitis or toxic hepatitis caused by drugs as isoniazid or chemicals as carbon tetrachloride
carbon tetrachloride causes…….
Post-Necrotic Cirrhosis
causes of Secondary Biliary Cirrhosis
A Congenital biliary atresia.
S Gall stones.
C Compression by large lymph nodes
congenital metabolic disorders causes cirrhosis
- Pigment cirrhosis: due to hemochromatosis (bronzed diabetes).
- Wilson’s disease. Inherited disease, failure of liver to excrete copper in bile and copper accumulates in liver and brain).
- Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
- Glycogen storage disease.
main complications of cirrhosis
1) Liver cell failure.
2) Portal hypertension.
3) Hepatocellular carcinoma.
Gross of liver cirrhosis
- The liver is decreased in size and weight due to loss of liver tissue & fibrous tissue shrinkage.
- The surface and cut section are nodular. According to size of regeneration nodules , cirrhosis is classified into :
* Micronodular cirrhosis: 1-3 mm in diameter. .
* Macronodular cirrhosis: >3 mm in diameter.
* Mixed micro and macro nodular cirrhosis. - The color is :
* Yellow in cases of nutritional or alcoholic cirrhosis (fatty change).
* Green in case of biliary cirrhosis
* Dark brown in case of hemochromatosis. - Consistency is firmer than normal, edges are sharp & retracted cut section (due to fibrosis)
causes mixed nodular cirrhosis
post hepatitic cirrhosis
causes macro nodular cirrhosis
post necrotic
wilson
the color of the liver is yellow in which type of cirrhosis
nutritional or alcoholic cirrhosis and post hepatitic