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1
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Whcih region of liver structure affected first with hepatic injury?

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ZONE 3 - zone around the central vein - already low in O2 and P450s need O2!! –> drug induced injury

2
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What are intrinsic drug reactions? characteristics?

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  • predictable
  • dose-dependent
  • short latency
  • specific lesions
3
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What are idiosyncratic drug reactions? characteristics?

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  • unpredictable
  • dose dependent
  • variable latency
  • variable lesions
  • hypersensitivity
4
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What kind of drug induced liver disease morphology with tetracycline?

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microsteatosis

5
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What kind of drug induced liver disease morphology with methotrexate?

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macrosteatosis

6
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What kind of drug induced liver disease morphology with acetaminophen?

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necrosis

7
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What kind of drug induced liver disease morphology with isoniazid and halothane?

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  • hepatitis -

- bridging necrosis (with halothane)

8
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What kind of drug induced liver disease morphology with amiodarone?

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fibrosis

9
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What kind of drug induced liver disease morphology with steroids and erythromycin?

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cholestasis

10
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Drink some alcohol - immediate change that happens to liver?

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  • steatosis - fatty liver change that is REVERSIBLE

- perivenular fibrosis

11
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Severe Drinking of alcohol - change that happens to liver?

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  • hepatitis
  • liver cell necrosis
  • inflammation
  • mallory bodies
  • fatty change - starts out microvesicular and fat coalesces into macrovesicles
12
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Repeated/heavy drinkers - what change that happens to liver?

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Cirrhosis

  • fibrosis
  • hyperplastic nodules - micronodular
13
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Macro-view of the alcoholic fatty liver?

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ITS YELLOW - FAT IS YELLOW

14
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what kind of nodular cirrhosis occurs with alcoholic cirrhosis?

What kind of fatty liver change occurs with alcoholic cirrhosis?

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Micronodular - due to bridging fibrosis

macrovesicular

15
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What are mallory bodies?

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glob of protein - hylaine! that aggregates in certain diseases
ex) alcoholic hep and wilsons disease

16
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megamitochondria seen in which liver disease?

A

alcoholic hepatitis

17
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Chicken wire fibrosis in space of dis occurs in which liver disease?

A

alcoholic hepatitis long-term abuse

18
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Alcoholic steatohepatitis Clinical/LABS:

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  • fever
  • leukocytosis
  • jaundice
  • INC AST and ALT (AST»ALT)
  • INC AP (inc with cholestasis)
19
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Alcoholic liver AST to ALT relationship

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AST will be almost twice as high as ALT

AST - A.”S.T.” for scotch and tonic

20
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Non-Alcoholic steatohepatitis- what risks?

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  • insulin reisistance/metabolic syndrome (obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia)
  • drug hepatotoxicity (tamoxifen (macrovesicular), nifedipine)
  • pregnancy (microvesiculuar)
21
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Liver infarction:

-common?

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rare bc of dual blood supply!

22
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Ischemic hepatitis, shock liver or hypoxic hepatitis - THINK WHAT PROBLEMS?

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**LEFT SIDED/VENTRICULAR HEART FAILURE

heart surgery

shock - centrilobular coagulative necrosis (around central veins - ZONE 3 drup); elevated transaminases; jaundice

23
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Extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis due to:

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1) abdominal infection & inflamm
- appendicitis
- diverticulitis
- pancreatitis
2) hypercoagulability
3) surgery

extra ==> send emboli to the liver

24
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Intrahepatic portal vein thrombosis due to?

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Issues inside the liver

1) cirrhosis
2) malignancy
3) stasis
4) pregnancy
5) idiopathic PH

25
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Clinical presentation of portal vein hypertension?

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-abdominal pain
portal hypertension (ascites, varices, splenommegaly)
-Bowel infarct
26
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Infarct of Zahn happens with which liver condition?

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  • not a true infarct bc the cells dont actually die - just atrophic hepatocytes
  • INTRAHEPATIC portal vein thrombosis
27
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Budd Ciari syndrome involves what?

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hepatic vein obstruction - the LARGER VEINS

28
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Hepatic vein obstruction conditions:

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1) Cardiac MORE COMMON - BACK PRESSURE FROM R SIDED FAILURE; constrictive pericaditis; congenital heart issues
- venous passive congestion
- centrilobular hemorrhagic necrosis
- cardiac sclerosis
2) Budd-Chiari syndrome

29
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First sight of hepatic vein obstruction?

A

DILATED SINUSOIDS

30
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Nutmeg liver seen with which condition- what is it?

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  • hepatic vein obstruction

- blood backs up and makes nutmeg looking liver

31
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Damage to what zone in the liver?

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Zone 3 but this time the cause is NOT hypoxic but rather HIGH BACK-PRESSURE RELATED

32
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Definition of Budd CHiari syndrome:

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clotting or obstruction of the hepatic vein and or IVC!

33
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Acute Bud Chiari Syndrome clinical signs:

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  • abdominal pain
  • hepatomegaly
  • ascites
  • jaundice
  • liver failure
34
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Chronic Bud Chiari syndrome clinical signs:

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portal hypertension

  • cirrhosis
  • obliterative hepatocavopathy (rare)
35
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Obliterative hepatocavopathy - what is it: causes?

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IVC obstruction due to membranous webs that causes edema of the abdominal wall, tortuous abdominal venous pattern, and edema of legs

36
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Veno-occlusive disease:
how does it happen?
what happens?

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VOD - complication following bone marrow transplant or ingestion of certain plant alkaloids
-nonspecific vasculitis arrising in response to an inflammatory challenge = sinusoid obstruction- obstruction of central veins

37
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Hereditary hemochromatosis
what is it?
what gene involved??

A
  • abnormal continuous iron absorption through the gut
  • deposition of iron throughout the body

-MUTATION IS HFE GENE**

38
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What are the mutant alleles in hereditary hemochromatosis

A

C282Y and H63D

39
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Early hereditary hemochromatosis

-where are the deposits?

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-Fe in periportal hepatocytes

40
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Advanced hereditary hemochromatosis

-where are the deposits?

A

Fe in Kupffer cells, bile duct epithelium, and fibrous septa

41
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What does Hereditary hemochromatosis progress to?

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  • pigmented micronodular cirrhosis

- HCC

42
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Labs/Diagnosis of Hereditary hemochromatosis?

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  • INC serum Fe > 300mg/dL
  • inc Transferrin saturationg>2X
  • INC serum ferritin>2X
  • INC hepatic Fe index>2

–> if transferrin and ferritin are both high then genetic testing for C282Y or H63D*

43
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hereditary hemochromatosis

-disease outcomes:

A
  • diabetes
  • cardiomyopathy
  • hypogondism
  • skin pigementation
  • pseudo-gout
44
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hereditary hemochromatosis on microscopy-

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A lot of brown pigment deposition in stuff

or iron looks blue with prussian blue stain

45
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Secondary iron overload -

mnemonic to remember outcomes

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THALAS

  • T-Transfusions
  • H-hemochromatosis, neonatal
  • A-alimentary (bantu siderosis) - from diet
  • L-Liver disease
  • A-Anemia, congenital (thalessemia)
  • S-Sideroblastic anemia

Most commonly due to anemia

46
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Secondary hemochromatosis vs hereditary?

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-not as much in hepatocytes but a lot more in kupffer cells

47
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Coppuer function -

A

essential for pigment formation, neurotransmitter production, peptide formation, connective tissue biosynthesis and antioxidant defense –THINK WILSONS DISEASE

48
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Wilson Disease

  • What is the problem
  • where is the accumulation?
  • who affected?
A

-TOO MUCH COPPER - hereditary (autosomal recessive) - body retains copper

-BRAIN-LIVER- EYE**
Some in basal ganglia

younger disease 6- 20 yo but sometimes in 40yo+

49
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What is the protein that copper binds to?

A

ceruloplasmin

50
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What are the labs in WIlsons disease?

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  • DEC serum ceruloplasmin250microg/g tissue
  • inc urinary copper up to 100microg/24 rs
  • Kaiser fleischer rings
51
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Main Organs damaged in wilsons disease?

A

BRAIN
LIVER
EYE

52
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What is mutation in Wilsons disease?

A

mutation in ATP7B copper transporter

53
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Progression of wilsons disease?

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steatosis –> hepatitis –> cirrhosis

  • degeneration of basal ganglia
  • aminoaciduria
  • hemolytic anemia
  • cardiomyopathy
54
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Adults with wilsons disease usually present with?

A

neurologic and psychiatric issues –> deposits in the brain

55
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What are Kaiser-Fleisher rings?

What disease

A
  • Wilsons disease

- eyes have brown ring on outside rim of iris

56
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Alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency

  • hereditary inh?
  • gene involved?
  • what happens?
A
  • auto recessive
  • normal gene is PiMM - PiZZ genotype (PiZ protein made)
  • misfolded protein –> accumulation of PiZ in hepatocytes–>reduced intracellular protein degredation and increased autophagocytosis
57
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Diagnosis/LABS for alpha1 antitrypsin def:

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  • low serum alpha1-antitrypsin
  • abnormal electrophoresis of the protein
  • liver biopsy (PAS+ = pink/magenta color)
58
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  • tumor like conditions:

- feature of each?

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  • nodular regenerative hyperplasia = NO FIBROUS TISSUES MAKING MULTIPLE NODULES
  • focal nodular hyperplasia = single lesion
59
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focal nodular hyperplasia

  • what is it?
  • sex prevalence?
A
  • benign liver tumor

- women - usually associated with estrogen

60
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Features of focal nodular hyperplasia:

A
  • Solitary mass with central scarring

- fibrous septa

61
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nodular regenerative hyperplasia

  • definition/characteristics:
  • -causes what main issue?
A
  • nodules without fibrous septa

* *-cause of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension

62
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What is the TIPS procedure?

A

bypass of liver from portal vein to hepatic vein - for nodular regenerative hyperplasia

63
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hemangioma

  • prevalent sex?
  • symptoms?
  • risk?
A
  • most common benign hepatic tumor
  • more common in women - associated with oral contraceptives
  • asymptomatic or abd pain
  • risk of rupture and hemorrhage – no biopsy bc itll bleed!
64
Q

most common benign hepatic tumor?

A

hemangioma

65
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liver cell adenoma

  • benign/malig?
  • prevalent sex?
  • predisposing factors?
  • risk?
A

BENIGN

  • women
  • oral contraceptives; glycogen storage disease
  • may rupture in pregnancy; may harbor HCC (if more than 10 lesions)
66
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HCC

  • predominant sex?
  • common where?
A
  • males, african amerincas
  • Asia and africa
  • associated with HepB transmission at birth
67
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Most common primary malignant liver tumor?

A

HCC

68
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Main risk factor for HCC/

A
cirrhosis
alcoholism
HBV HCV
hereditary hemochromatosis
-alpha1 antitrypsin
-alflatoxin from aspergillus
-tyrosinemia
69
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How does HCV cause HCC?

A

genomic instability - inflammation drive toward cancer

-no particular proteins involved

70
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How does HBV cause HCC?

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  • has viral DNA integration damage AND LHBS mutant protein –> genomic instability

PROTEINS IN HBV contribute to HCC while HCV is only genomic.

71
Q

HCC diagnosis/LABS

A
  • ultrasound
  • angiography
  • CT
  • MRI
  • INC AFP>1000*****
72
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What is the only “good” variant of HCC? What age patients get this?

A

fibrolamellar HCC - better prognisosis - broad bands of fibrosis

young patients

73
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Cholangiocarcinoma - what is proliferating tissue?

A

GLANDS

74
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Cholangiocarcinoma

  • what is it?
  • risk factors:
A
  • malignant primary tumor of the bile duct epithelium
  • primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • thorotrast (come contrast agent we dont use anymore)
  • caroli disease (dilation of biliary system)
  • liver flukes - clonorchis opistorchis**
75
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hepatoblastoma

  • age?
  • associated conditions?
  • markers?
A
  • <3 yo
  • congenital
  • AFP is very high!
76
Q

most common primary malignant hepatic tumor in children?

A

heptoblastoma

77
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Angiosarcoma

  • what population? age?
  • exposure to what inc risk?
A

-men 50s-60s
-exposure to thorotrast, vinyl chloride, arsenic, androgenic steroids
POOR PROGNOSIS

78
Q

*most common tumor of the liver?

A

cancer that has spread to the liver

79
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What are the common primary sites for metastatic tumors in liver?

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-GI, breast, lung, pancreas, melanoma