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single large droplet which displaces nucleus
macrovesicular steatosis
microvescular steatosis
multiple tiny droplets which do not displace nucleus
foamy degeneration
retained biliary material
ballooning degeneration
swollen hepatocytes (toxic/immunologic damage)
Ischemic Coagulative Necrosis
Cells Poorly Stained
Mummified
Lysed Nuclei
Apoptosis following Toxic/Immunologic Damage
Isolated Cells round up and form shrunken, pyknotic, eosinophilic councilman bodies containing fragmented nuclei
Lytic Necrosis
cells osmotically swell and rupture
Focal Necrosis
Necrosis Limited to Scattered Cells within Lobules
Interface Hepatitis
necrosis limited to interface between periportal parenchyma and inflammed portal tracts
Bridging Necrosis
necrosis of contiguous hepatocytes psanning adjacent lobules in portal-to-portal, portal-to-central, or centeral-to-central manner
Submassive Necrosis
necrosis of entire lobules
Massive Necrosis
necrosis of most ofthe liver
Hepatitis
Injury with influx of actue or chornic inflammatory cells
reserve cells
oval cells, progenitors for both hepatocytes and bile duct cells
Cirrhosis
liver subdivided into nodules of regenerating hepatocytes surrounded by scar tissue
Ductular Reaction
increases in number of intrahepatic bile ducts and canals of hering
associated with fibrosis and inflammation
Erythroblastosis fetalis
increased unconjugated bilirubin in brain → severe damage = kernicterus
Cholestasis
systemic retention of bilirubin and other solutes eliminated in bile
asterixis
nonrhythmic rapid extension-flexion movement of head & extremities
bridging fibrous septa
parenchymal nodules (micro to macro)
disruption of architecture of entire liver
What three characteristics define cirrhosis?
Death of hepatocytes, ECM deposition, vascular reorganization
The Three Changes in the Pathogenesis of Cirrohsis
Pt has eaten Polar Bear Liver
HA, Vomiting, Stupor, Papilledema; Carotemia: yellowing of the skin which resembles jaundice w/o icterus.
acute vitamin A toxicity
Pt has eaten a diet of Halibut, Cod Liver, Supplements

Dryness of lips, Epistaxis, Bone & Joint Pain w/ hyperostosis, fracture, hepatomegaly, psychatric manifestations

increased circulating lipids, hyperCa²⁺emia from osteoclastic bone destrx
Chornic Vitamin A Toxicity
Amanita phalloides Mushroom poisoning
Massive increases in AST & ALT
Prolonged PT, Increased Bilirbutin
Metabolic Acidosis, Hypotension
Hepatic encephalopathy, oliguric renal failure, ARDS death
Macrovesicular steatosis
hepatomegaly 4+ kg, yellow & greasy

± elevated AST, ALT, Bilirubin
↑↑↑ elevated GGT & AP
alcoholic steatosis
tender hepatomegaly
↑AST> ↑ALT 2:1
↑ GGT, ±↑AP
↑ Bilirubin
Neutrophilic Leukocytosis
balloon cell
mallory bodies
alcoholic hepatitis
spider angiomas
palmar erythema
gynecomastia
Alcoholic Cirrhosis
Manifestations of ↑ Estrogen
bleeding esophageal varices
hemorrhoids
splenomegaly ± hypersplenism (cytopenias esp thrombocytopenia)
ascites
caput medusa
Alcoholic Cirrhosis
Manifestations of ↑ Portal Htn
brown, shrunken Liver with "hobnail" nodules
cirrhosis
macroscopic morphology
cirrhosis microscopic morphology
micro& macornodules of trapped & regenerative hepatocytes surrounded by fibrous tissue
Labs of Alcoholic Cirrhosis
↑ AST & ALT, ± ↑ AP
Hyperbilirubinemia, mostly unconjugated,
hypoproteinemia
prolonged PT
Anemia
thrombocytopenia
Obseity, T2DM, HyperTAGemia, Hyperinsulinemia w/ IR
risk factors for nonalcoholic fatty Liver disease
elevated AST/ALT w/ ~ 1:1 ratio
Labs of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
pigment cirrhosis, diabetes millitus, skin pigmentation
classic triad of late hemochromatosis
ceruloplasmin
major copper carrying protein. stuffed with copper in liver.
vonMeyenberg Complex
common & sporadic
clinically insignificant bile duct hamartoma:
proliferation of small ducts adjacent to protal tract
Polycystic Liver dieases:
AD, assoc. w/ AD polycistic kidney disease
Cysts in multiple organs: liver, pancrease, kidneys;
pregnant women
multiple cysts throughout liver lined by cuboidal cells and filled with straw colored fluid.
die of renal failure
Congential Hepatic Fibrosis
AR: assoc w/ AR polycycstic Kidney disease
Portal htn w/ cirrhosis
ducts in fibrous poliferations along septal margins
risk of cholangiocarcinoma
Caroli Disease
AR; portal htn, intrahepatitic cholestasis, cholelithiasis, & cholangitis;
segmental dilation of large bile ducts
risk for cholangiocarcinoma;
Alagille syndrome
Portal tract bile ducts absent
aka syndromic paucity of bile ducts
Risk for liver failure & hpetocellular carcinoma
Banti syndrome
infarction 2° to umbilical vein catheterization as a neonate, else omphalitis
Passive congestion of heart failure
Grossly: nutmeg liver (from centrilobular hemorrhagic necrosis)
Micro: centrilobular hemorrhagic necorsis
Chronic: cardiac sclerosis = centrilobular fibrosis
sinusoidal obstruction syndrome

cause, symptoms and outcomes
aka veno-occlusive disease

Cause: 1st weeks after bone marrow transplant
Sx: tender hepatomegaly, ascities, weight gain, jaundice
Prognosis: 30% fatal, 70% spontaneous recovery; no Tx
↑ LDH
↑ AP
nothing else
LFT of space occupying lesion of the liver
↑ AST, ↑ ALT,↑ LDH

ASt, ALT > 10x upper limit & AST, ALT >AP
LFT of Liver Cell Necrosis
↑ AST = 2x ↑ ALT
↑ GGT, ↨ AP
Liver Fnx Test of Alcoholic Liver Disease
↑ AP
↔bilirubin
LFT of partial biliary obstruction
↑ AP
↑ bilirubin
LFT of extensive biliary duct obstruction
Pancreas divisum
incomplete pancreatic duct fusion; most secrretions drain through small, stenotic pancreatic duct via a minor papilla; predispostion to chornic recurrent pancreatitis
Annular pancreas
pancreas surrounds duodenum may partially obstrx SI, gastric distention and vomiting
Pancreatic Heterotopia
Pancreatic Ts in the Somach, Duodenum, Jejunum, Meckel Diverticulum; pain and localized bleeding. site of 2% of islet tumors.
morphology of pancreatitis.
Pancreas with fat necrosis: chalky, white material
inflam-infiltrate, microvascular damage/edema
Not-Late Stage Chronic Pancreatitis
Pancreas with fibrosis & calcifications
loss of acini, islets of langerhans normal
true cysts of the pancreas
intra-pancreatic space range from microscopic to 5cm, lined by ductal epithelium
Acute Viral Hepatitis
Morphology
Balooning Degeneration of Hepatocytes
Councilman Bodies of Apoptosis
Macrophage Aggregates eating dead cells
severe confluent necrosis
Inflammatory infiltrates in portal tracts - interface hepatitis
cholestasis
Chornic viral hepatitis morphology
lymphoid infiltratres of portal trats, reactive bile duct changes
progression → interface hepatitis, bridging necrosis & fibrosis
Malignant liver tumors arising from hepatocytes
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Malignant liver tumors arising from bile duct
Colangiocarcionma
Biliary atresia
complete obstrx of biliary tree
Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
outpouchings of mucosal epithelium through thickened fibrotic wall in the gallbladder ± inflammation
Choledocholithiasis
stone in extrahepatic bile duct
Cholangitis
bacterial infection in bild ducts
ascending cholangitis
bacterial infx ascending hepatobiliary tree
suppurative cholangitis
liver abscess 2* to biliary infx