level: Jaundice and liver disease
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Jaundice and liver disease
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what liver cells have immune functions | Kuppfner cells |
| Non alcholoic fatty liver diseases e.g. hep a b c and | Metabolic diseases e.g. haemachromatosis Immune mediated diseases e.g. primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis Drugs |
| acute liver failure causes: | Drugs e.g. paracetamol Acute viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, B, E) Seronegative hepatitis Amanita phylloides (mushroom) poisoning Metabolic diseases e.g. Wilson’s diseas |
| Liver failure complications | Protein malnutrition coagulopathy hypoglycaemia cardiovascular instability |
| Failure of hepatic clearance | Testicular atrophy* Typically features of chronic only Encephalopathy Failure to clear drugs Renal failure Jaundice |
| Treatment of autoimmune hepatitis | Cortiocosteroids |
| What is ascites | Fluid build up in the abdomen |
| What is responsible for the yellowing in jaundice | billirubin |
| Gilberts syndrome | Enzyme defic. that can precipitate jaundice when stressed |
| What is pruritis | wanting to scratch |
| jaundice causes in cases- | 1. Viral infection 2. Genetic hyperbillirubia 3. Obstructive jaundice 4. Alcholoic hep 5. Pancreatic cancer? |