Steatosis

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• Synonyms

  • Fatty liver

• Causes

  • Alcoholic liver disease
  • Obesity
  • Corticosteroid
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • HELLP syndrome
  • Malnutrition
  • Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
  • Reye syndrome
  • Tetracycline
  • Valproate
  • Type I hyperlipoproteinaemia
  • Tangier disease
  • Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor
  • Porphyria cutanea tarda
  • Total parenteral nutrition

• Parents

  • Hepatobiliary pathology

• Children

  • Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

• Description

  • " Accumulation of lipids
  • particularly triglycerides within hepatocytes. Fatty liver. As long as cirrhosis has not developed
  • fatty change is reversible with modification of underlying cause."