LIVER FUNCTION Flashcards

(36 cards)

1
Q

The liver is located on what quadrant?

A

Right Upper Quadrant

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2
Q

The liver is divided into two lobes vy the ___

A

Falciform ligament

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3
Q

T or F:

The right lobe is the largest lobe of the liver

A

True

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4
Q

T or F:

Portal vein provides 75% of deoxygenated blood to the liver

A

False; Oxygenated

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5
Q

Illustrate the bile flow

A

Hepatocytes ➡ Bile canaliculi ➡ Bile ductules ➡ Bile ducts ➡ Hepatic duct ➡ Cystic duct ➡Common bile duct ➡ Ampulla of vater

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6
Q

Portal triad consists of?

A

Bile duct
Portal vein
Hepatic artery

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7
Q

Drains blood from the portal vein and the hepatic artery to the central vein

A

Hepatic lobule

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8
Q

Supplies oxygenated blood to hepatocytes

A

Portal acinus

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9
Q

What zone is first affected by cirrhosis?

A

Zone 3 coz it is less oxygenated

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10
Q

Protein formation is included in what function of the liver

A

Synthetic

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11
Q

Bilirubin binds to ___ to be converted to _____

A

Albumin; UB

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12
Q

UB is also called

A

INDIRECT bilirubin

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13
Q

presents the UB to glucoronic acid

A

Ligandin

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14
Q

enzyme that helps conjugation

A

UDP - Glucuronyl transferase

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15
Q

80% of urobilinogen will form what

A

Stercobilin and Urobilin

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16
Q

What type of bilirubin is water insoluble

17
Q

Why is it called direct and indirect bilirubin

A

UB is called INDIRECT because it is measured by subtracting total bilirubin and CB; CB is called DIRECT because it is measured directly in the lab

18
Q

Formation of glucose from non sugar compounds

A

Gluconeogenesis

19
Q

Termed as the mother compound

20
Q

T or F:

All proteins are synthesized in the liver

A

False; all except Ig and adult hemoglobin

21
Q

coagulation factor that is not produced in the liver

A

Von Willebrand Factor

22
Q

Enzyme that helps in the detoxification in the liver

A

Cytochrome P450

23
Q

This disease is due to the presence of elevated bilirubin

24
Q

Yellow staining of the meninges of the brain and may cause brain damage

25
Main cause of Pre-hepatic jaundice
Too much bilirubin going to the liver
26
Fraction of bilirubin that is highest in Hepatic jaundice
Both UB and CB
27
Disease due to absent or deficient UGT
Gilbert disease
28
Defective removal of conjugated bilirubin from the liver cell
Dubin-Johnson syndrome
29
Main cause of this type of jaundice is biliary obstruction
Post-hepatic jaundice
30
Lab results: Total bilirubin - Increase CB - N UB - increase
Prehepatic jaundice
31
Lab results: Total bilirubin - increase CB - increase UB - increase
Pathologic jaundice | Post hepatic jaundice
32
T or F: Metastatic liver cancer is much more common than primary liver cancer
True
33
A child who is suspected to have a viral infection was given aspirin and showed hyperammonemia in the lab results. It is most likely that the child has ___
Reye syndrome
34
Enzymes for alcohol metabolism
Alcohol dehydrogenase | Acetaldehyde dehydrogenase
35
This is the mildest category in the stages of alcohol related disorders
Alcoholic fatty liver
36
Hepatitis viruses with MOT of fecal-oral
Virus A and E