Difference between revisions of "Medical liver disease"

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*Light blue haze is not enough.
*Light blue haze is not enough.
**NOT siderosis -- in Kupffer cells.
**NOT siderosis -- in Kupffer cells.
Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemosiderosis_high_mag.jpg Hemosiderosis - iron stain (WC)].


Notes:  
Notes:  
*Iron in the bile ducts and endothelium used to be though specific of hereditary hemochromatosis.<ref>MG. 17 September 2009.</ref>
*Iron in the bile ducts and endothelium used to be though specific of hereditary hemochromatosis.<ref>MG. 17 September 2009.</ref>
**It is now thought to just reflect the severity of iron deposition, i.e. if the bile ducts and endothelium have iron - it is severe.
**It is now thought to just reflect the severity of iron deposition, i.e. if the bile ducts and endothelium have iron - it is severe.
Images:
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemosiderosis_high_mag.jpg Hemosiderosis - iron stain (WC)].
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case77/path.html Hemochromatosis (upmc.edu)].


===DDx===
===DDx===
*Myelodysplastic syndrome.
*[[Myelodysplastic syndrome]].
*Chronic hemolysis.
*Chronic hemolysis.
*Alcohol.
*Alcohol.