Difference between revisions of "Medical liver disease"

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*Diagnosis is by serology.
*Diagnosis is by serology.


===Histology===
===Microscopic===
Features:
*Lobular inflammation - this is non-specific finding.
*Lobular inflammation - this is non-specific finding.
*Periportal steatosis in genotype 3.<ref name=pmid16614743>Yoon EJ, Hu KQ. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and hepatic steatosis. Int J Med Sci. 2006;3(2):53-6. Epub 2006 Apr 1. PMID 16614743. Avialable at: [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1415843 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1415843]. Accessed on: September 9, 2009.</ref>
*Periportal steatosis in genotype 3.<ref name=pmid16614743>Yoon EJ, Hu KQ. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and hepatic steatosis. Int J Med Sci. 2006;3(2):53-6. Epub 2006 Apr 1. PMID 16614743. Avialable at: [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1415843 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1415843]. Accessed on: September 9, 2009.</ref>
**Steatosis in hepatitis C is usually a secondary pathology, i.e. a separate pathologic process.<ref>OA. September 2009.</ref>
**Steatosis in hepatitis C is usually a secondary pathology, i.e. a separate pathologic process.<ref>OA. September 2009.</ref>
DDx:
*Hepatitis B (without ground glass hepatocytes).
*Autoimmune hepatitis.
*Primary biliary cirrhosis without granulomas.
*Drug reaction.


==Congestive hepatopathy==
==Congestive hepatopathy==
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