Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
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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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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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