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Fatty liver differential diagnosis
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Differentiating Fatty Liver from other Diseases
Differentiating Fatty Liver from other Diseases
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| ‡ Criteria for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: consumption of ethanol less than 20g/day for woman and 30g/day for man[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Abetalipoproteinemia
- Aryl-dehydrogenase deficiency
- Cystic fibrosis
- Diabetes mellitus
- Disorders of lipid metabolism
- Drugs, toxins
- Fructose intolerance
- Galactose metabolism
- Glycogen metabolism
- Homocystine metabolism
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Intestinal bypass surgery
- Obesity
- Parenteral nutrition
- Pregnancy
- Protein malnutrition, deficiency
- Refsum’s disease
- Reye’s syndrome
- Starvation, rapid weight loss
- Tyrosine metabolism
- Weber-Christian Disease
- Wilson’s disease[3]
References
References
- ↑ Bayard M, Holt J, Boroughs E (2006). “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease”. American family physician. 73 (11): 1961–8. PMID 16770927.
- ↑ Adams LA, Angulo P, Lindor KD (2005). “Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease”. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l’Association medicale canadienne. 172 (7): 899–905. doi:10.1503/cmaj.045232. PMID 15795412.
- ↑ Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:142 isbn=1591032016
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