Medical liver disease
This article deals with medical liver disease. An introduction to the liver and approach is found in the liver article.
Every differential in liver pathology has "drugs"[1] -- if it isn't clearly malignancy.
Liver neoplasms are dealt with in the liver neoplasms article.
Viral hepatitis
These are common. The diagnoses are based on serology. The serology is covered in the viral hepatitis section in the liver pathology article.
Typically classified as:[2][3]
- Acute < 6 months duration.
- Chronic > 6 months duration.
Hepatitis A
- Infection is self-limited, i.e. not persistent.
- May present as fulminant hepatic necrosis.
- Usually asymptomatic in children.[4]
- Serology is diagnostic.
Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B virus, abbreviated HBV, redirects here.
General
- May lead to hepatocellular carcinoma without cirrhosis.
- High prevalence.
- Diagnosis is by serology.
- A vaccination is available and done routinely in a many jurisdictions.[5]
Associated pathology:
Microscopic
Features:
- Lobular inflammation - this is non-specific finding.
- Hepatocyte necrosis:
- Necrotic hepatocytes look a lot like neutrophils - however:
- Cytoplasm is more pink.
- Round apoptotic bodies.
- Necrotic hepatocytes look a lot like neutrophils - however:
- Hepatocyte necrosis:
- Ground glass hepatocytes - see liver pathology article.
DDx:
Image
GGH - high mag. (WC)
IHC
- Hepatitis B +ve.
Hepatitis C
General
- Leads to hepatocellular carcinoma in the setting of cirrhosis.
- Tends to be chronic; the "C" in "hepatitis C" stands for chronic.
- Diagnosis is by serology.
Associated pathology:
Microscopic
Features:
- Lobular inflammation - this is non-specific finding.
- Usually Grade 1, rarely Grade 2 and almost never Grade 3 or Grade 4.[6]
- Periportal steatosis in genotype 3.[7]
- Steatosis in hepatitis C is usually a secondary pathology, i.e. a separate pathologic process.[8]
DDx:
- Hepatitis B (without ground glass hepatocytes).
- Autoimmune hepatitis.
- Primary biliary cirrhosis without granulomas.
- Drug reaction.
Other infections
- Hydatid disease (Hydatid cyst).
- Ascaris.
- Fasciola
Hydatid disease
- AKA hydatid cyst.
General
- Etiology: Echinococcus.
Microscopic
Features:
- Laminated wall +/- calcification.[9]
- Organisms -- see Echinococcus.
Images
Liver cyst wall - intermed. mag. (WC)
Liver cyst wall - high mag. (WC)
Characteristic laminated portion - intermed. mag. (WC)
Characteristic laminated portion - high mag. (WC)
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Metabolic and toxic
Alcoholic liver disease
General
- Acute and/or chronic liver changes due to excessive alcohol use - includes:
Classic lab findings in EtOH abusers
- AST & ALT elevated with AST:ALT=2:1.
- GGT elevated.
- MCV increased.
Gross pathology/radiologic findings
- Classically micronodular pattern.
- May be macronodular.
Microscopic
See:
- Steatohepatitis section and ballooning degeneration section.
Features:
- Often zone III damage.
- Cholestatsis common, i.e. yellow staining.
- NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) usu. does not have cholestasis.[12]
- Fibrosis starts at central veins.
- Neutrophils (often helpful) -- few other things have PMNs. (???)
- Neutrophils cluster around cells with Mallory hyaline.
Notes:
- If portal inflammatory infiltrates more than mild, r/o other causes i.e. viral hepatitis.
- Mallory bodies once thought to be characteristic; now considered non-specific and generally poorly understood.[13]
- Some consider alcoholic liver disease a clinical diagnosis, i.e. as a pathologist one does not diagnose it.[14]
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Abbreviated NAFLD.
- Fatty liver that is not due to alcohol; includes obesity-related fatty liver, metabolic disease/diabetes-related fatty liver.
NASH
- Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis - see steatohepatitis section.
- Histologically indistinguishable from ASH.
- NASH is a clinical diagnosis based on exclusion of alcohol.
Steatohepatitis
Main article: Steatohepatitis
Autoimmune
Autoimmune hepatitis
- Abbreviated AIH.
Main article: Autoimmune hepatitis
Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Abbreviated PBC.
Main article: Primary biliary cirrhosis
Autoimmune hepatitis-primary biliary cirrhosis overlap syndrome
- Abbreviation AIH-PBC OS.
General
Epidemiology:
- Rare.
Serology:[15]
- AMA +ve.
- Anti-dsDNA +ve.
Microscopic
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Abbreviated PSC.
Main article: Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Hereditary
Caroli disease
General
- Genetic disease.
- Frequently associated with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD).[16]
- May be seen in isolation.[17]
Clinical:[18]
- Recurrent cholangitis.
- Recurrent cholelithiasis.
- Cholangiocarcinoma[19] - seen in ~7% of cases.[20]
Note:
- Caroli syndrome = Caroli disease + congenital hepatic fibrosis.[21]
Gross
- Dilated bile ducts.[16]
Microscopic
Features:[18]
- Dilated bile ducts.
- Periductal fibrosis. (???)
- +/-Fibrosis.
Image:
Hereditary hemochromatosis
- For secondary causes see secondary hemochromatosis.
Main article: Hereditary hemochromatosis
Wilson disease
Main article: Wilson's disease
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- AKA alpha1-antiprotease inhibitor deficiency.
Main article: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
Other
Budd-Chiari syndrome
- AKA hepatic vein obstruction.
General
- Hepatic outflow obstruction.
Clinical triad:[23]
- Ascites.
- Abdominal pain.
- Hepatomegaly.
Etiology:
- ~50% have a myeloproliferative disease.[24]
- May be due to mass effect from a tumour.
Clinical DDx:
Microscopic
Features:[25]
- Sinusoidal dilation in zone III (congestion).
- +/-Hepatocyte drop-out.
- +/-Centrilobular fibrosis.
DDx congestion:
- Congestive heart failure (congestive hepatopathy).
- Constrictive pericarditis.
Vanishing bile duct syndrome
General
- Fatal.
DDx:[27]
- Primary biliary cirrhosis.
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis.
- GVHD.[28]
- Drugs.[29]
- Chronic rejection.[26]
Microscopic
Features:[27]
- Loss of intrahepatitic bile ducts - key feature.
- Cholestasis.
Note:
- May occur without fibrosis and inflammation; thus, can be easy to miss.
IHC
- CK7 -ve.
- Marks bile ducts.
Congestive hepatopathy
General
- Liver failure due to (right) heart failure.
- AKA cardiac cirrhosis - a term used by clinicians.
- Generally, it does not satisfy pathologic criteria for cirrhosis.[30]
Gross
- "Nutmeg" liver - yellow spotted appearance.
Microscopic
Features:[31]
- Zone III atrophy.
- Portal venule (central vein) distension.
- Perisinusoidal fibrosis - progresses to centrilobular fibrosis and then diffuse fibrosis.
- Dilation of sinusoids in all zone III areas - key feature.[32]
Image: Congestive hepatopathy (WC).
Drug-induced liver disease
- AKA drug-induced liver toxicity.
Main article: Drug-induced liver disease
Focal nodular hyperplasia
- Abbreviated FNH.
Main article: Focal nodular hyperplasia
Nodular regenerative hyperplasia
General
- Associated with renal transplants, bone marrow transplants and vasculitides.[33]
- Can lead to portal hypertension and many of the associated complications.[34]
Etiology
- Arterial hypervascularity secondary to loss of hepatic vein radicles (loss of central venule in hepatic lobule).[33]
ASIDE: radicle = ramulus - smallest branch or vessel or nerve.[35]
Gross
- Diffuse nodularity - whole liver.
Microscopic
Features:[33]
- "Plump" hepatocytes surrounded by atrophic ones.
- No fibrosis.
Sinuosoidal obstruction syndrome
- May be referred to as Hepatic veno-occlusive disease.[36]
General
Clinical DDx:
Microscopic
Features:[25]
- Subendothelial swelling in hepatic venules.
Negatives:
- No thrombosis.
Polycystic kidney disease and the liver
Main article: Cystic kidney disease
General
Complications of PKD in the liver:[38]
- Infected cyst.
- Cholangiocarcinoma.
- Cholestasis/obstruction due to duct compression.[39]
Cysts:
- Cysts in the liver, like the kidney, are thought to enlarge with age.
Microscopic
Features:[40]
- Von Meyenburg complexes (bile duct hamartoma):
- Cluster of dilated ducts with "altered" bile.
- Surrounded by collagenous stroma.
- Separate from the portal areas.[41]
Images:
Notes:
Peliosis hepatis
General
- Associated with:
- Infections.
- Malignancy.
- Other stuff.
- Rarely biopsied.
Microscopic
Features:
- Cyst lined by endothelium.
- Usu. incomplete.
- Blood.
Total parenteral nutrition
- Abbreviated TPN.
General
- Indication: short gut syndrome, others.
Microscopic
Variable - may range from: steatosis, steatohepatitis, cholestasis, fibrosis and cirrhosis.[44]
- Steatosis (periportal) - early.
- Cholestasis - late.
Giant cell hepatitis
- AKA neonatal giant cell hepatitis.
- See: Giant cell hepatitis.
Hepatic amyloidosis
Main article: Amyloidosis
General
- Diffuse abundant amyloid within the space of Disse is associated with portal hypertension.[47]
Microscopic
Features:
- Amorphous extracellular pink stuff on H&E - see amyloid article.
DDx:
Images
Amyloidosis of the liver - low mag. (WC)
Amyloidosis of the liver - intermed. mag. (WC)
Amyloidosis of the liver - high mag. (WC)
Amyloidosis of the liver - very high mag. (WC)
Stains
- Congo red +ve.
Fulminant hepatic necrosis
General
Etiology:
- Viral, i.e. Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B; Hepatitis C - extremely rare.
- Trauma.
- Shock.
Microscopic
Features:
- Hepatocyte necrosis.
- Bile duct proliferation.
DDx:
Secondary hemochromatosis
- For the hereditary one see hereditary hemochromatosis.
General
- Iron overload secondary to blood transfusions for hereditary or acquired anemia.[48]
- Primary hemochromatosis due to a defect in iron processing - called hereditary hemochromatosis.
- Imaging considered the best test, as iron deposition is patchy.[48]
Selected hereditary causes:[48]
- Thalassemia.
- Sickle cell anemia.
- Hereditary sideroblastic anemia.
Selected acquired causes:[48]
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelofibrosis
- Aplastic anemia, intractable.
Microscopic
See also
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