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Fatty Liver
(Hepatic Steatosis)
Patient Education
- Approach to the Patient With Liver Disease
- Liver Structure and Function
- Evaluation of the Patient With a Liver Disorder
- The Asymptomatic Patient With Abnormal Laboratory Test Results
- Acute Liver Failure
- Ascites
- Crigler-Najjar Syndrome
- Fatty Liver
- Gilbert Syndrome
- Inborn Metabolic Disorders Causing Hyperbilirubinemia
- Jaundice
- Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Portal Hypertension
- Portosystemic Encephalopathy
- Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)
- Postoperative Liver Dysfunction
- Systemic Abnormalities in Liver Disease
Fatty liver is excessive accumulation of lipid in hepatocytes, the most common liver response to injury.
Fatty liver develops for many reasons, involves many different biochemical mechanisms, and causes different types of liver damage. Clinically, it is most useful to distinguish fatty liver due to pregnancy or alcoholic liver disease from that occurring in the absence of pregnancy and alcoholism (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [NAFLD]). NAFLD includes simple fatty infiltration (a benign condition) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a less common but more important variant.
- Approach to the Patient With Liver Disease
- Liver Structure and Function
- Evaluation of the Patient With a Liver Disorder
- The Asymptomatic Patient With Abnormal Laboratory Test Results
- Acute Liver Failure
- Ascites
- Crigler-Najjar Syndrome
- Fatty Liver
- Gilbert Syndrome
- Inborn Metabolic Disorders Causing Hyperbilirubinemia
- Jaundice
- Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
- Portal Hypertension
- Portosystemic Encephalopathy
- Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP)
- Postoperative Liver Dysfunction
- Systemic Abnormalities in Liver Disease
* This is the Professional Version. *
Also of Interest
Test your knowledge
Portal hypertension is elevated pressure in the portal vein. Which of the following is the most common cause of the disorder in developed countries?
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