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Morphological Features in Non‐Cirrhotic Livers from Patients with Chronic Alcoholism, Diabetes Mellitus or Adipositas
Author(s) -
Christoffersen Per,
Petersen Palle
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1978.tb02075.x
Subject(s) - fatty liver , alcoholic hepatitis , cirrhosis , diabetes mellitus , medicine , gastroenterology , etiology , chronic alcoholism , overweight , alcoholic fatty liver , chronic hepatitis , chronic alcoholic , obesity , type 2 diabetes mellitus , alcoholic liver disease , endocrinology , disease , immunology , virus
Consecutive liver biopsies from alcoholic, diabetic and overweight patients are compared morphologically and in addition a comparison is made between groups with a combination of two or three of the above conditions. Both fatty change and morphological activity are greater in the groups with alcoholism, and this gives good reason to believe that the activity in the form of alcoholic hepatitis is the cause for the more common development of cirrhosis in alcoholic fatty liver than in fatty liver with other aetiology.