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Fatty Liver
steatosis
- lipid accumulation in cytoplasm of hepatocytes
- macroscopically liver appears yellow, greasy and soft
- microscopically lipid vesicles seen
- thought to be due to problems in protein synthesis affecting secretion of
liposomes
Types
- microvesicular
- tends to be of little clinical problem in itself
- associated with
- macrovesicular
- indicates severe metabolic derangement
- associated with
- Reye's syndrome
- mushroom poisoning
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