Diagnosaurus
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Etiology
- Obesity
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypertriglyceridemia
- Corticosteroids
- Cushing's syndrome
- Starvation or rapid weight loss
- Hypobetalipoproteinemia
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Drugs: corticosteroids, amiodarone, tamoxifen
- Wilson's disease
- Jejunoileal bypass
- Poisons: carbon tetrachloride, yellow phosphorus
- Microvesicular steatosis (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease usually macrovesicular): Reye's syndrome, valproic acid toxicity, tetracycline, acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- Alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Hepatitis, eg, viral, alcoholic, toxic
- Cirrhosis
- Congestive heart failure
- Hepatocellular carcinoma or metastatic cancer
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114703/all/Nonalcoholic_fatty_liver_disease.
Zeiger RFR. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114703/all/Nonalcoholic_fatty_liver_disease. Accessed December 30, 2024.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114703/all/Nonalcoholic_fatty_liver_disease
Zeiger RFR. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2024 December 30]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114703/all/Nonalcoholic_fatty_liver_disease.
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