2008-07-12

The clinical manifestations of fatty liver

Loss of appetite, fatigue
This is often associated with liver disease in patients with symptoms of the patients if a loss of appetite, fatigue, burnout oil, abdominal distention, liver pain, and ruled out the cold, acute gastritis and other liver disease, fatty liver should be suspected to be the possibility of .

Nausea and vomiting

Nausea and vomiting are common symptoms of clinical. Nausea and vomiting often the precursors to feel, but can also appear separately, mainly shown on the special abdominal discomfort, often accompanied with dizziness, drooling, slow pulse, blood pressure lowering, and other symptoms. Vomiting refers to the contents of stomach contents or part of small intestine, through the esophageal reflux into the mouth of a complex reflex action. Hepatobiliary gastric diseases have frequently nausea, vomiting or to Ou symptoms, such as acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis (B, A, etc.), liver cirrhosis, acute and chronic gastritis, and so on. If fatty liver associated with liver damage, with nausea to Ou, disgust oil, the symptoms of abdominal distention, such as the liver.

Hepatomegaly

Fatty liver is a common performance for liver enlargement. If the liver capsule by extension expansion, liver ligament was traction, or inflammation of fatty cyst rupture, that liver pain and tenderness, with anti-Tiaotong, fever, WBC increased.

Fatty liver in patients with hepatomegaly: About 90 percent of patients with liver can be palpable, 30% mild hepatomegaly, such as liver storage of fat in the liver weight more than 40 percent, may have significant liver, but as painless. Although the liver enlargement, and its shape remained normal. If the check when its texture normal liver, or Shaojue soft. And smooth surface with no tenderness, consideration should be given to the possibility of fatty liver. However, because of fatty liver than its soft texture, although the enlargement in the abdominal palpation under often difficult to breach that. If the obesity caused by excessive nutrition, chronic alcoholism, diabetes, chronic tuberculosis, anemia and other serious diseases exist, can help determine whether those with fatty liver. Hepatomegaly also more common in all types of viral hepatitis, liver cancer, amoebic abscess, liver cirrhosis, liver, such as tuberculosis, it should be clear of symptoms at diagnosis, laboratory tests and imaging examination (B-chao, CT, etc.) Confirmed.

Zhi Zhuzhi

Zhizhu Zhi is the end of arteries skin branch formed by the expansion of vascular mole, the shape of the spider, it said Zhizhu Zhi.

Zhi Zhuzhi appear in many parts of the superior vena cava distribution of the region, such as the face, neck, back, upper arm, chest and shoulder, and so on. Ranging from the size of its moles in diameter can be large needle to a few centimeters above. Check with your fingertips or (needle) matches rods oppression mole at the centre (that is, the central artery small cadre), the radial small vascular network that is fade, remove the pressure and then a resumption.

Zhizhu Zhi in the liver and is generally believed that the estrogen in the weakening of the inactivated. Common in acute and chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, or fatty liver. Chronic liver disease (including fatty liver) in the occasion of the palm-sized fish often redness, such as the back-pressure, known as the liver palms, and the mechanism of the same Zhizhu Zhi. According to reports, 270 cases of liver biopsy confirmed fatty liver for eight percent of patients have Zhizhu Zhi, fatty liver improved after Zhizhu Zhi disappeared, three cases of conversion from fatty liver cirrhosis, Zhi Zhuzhi increase.

Endocrine disorders

Liver for many places inactivated hormone metabolism, fatty liver, in addition to the patients there Zhizhu Zhi, but also can have male breast development, testicular atrophy, impotence, female, too many, amenorrhea, the patient, such as weight loss or increase performance.

Changes in patient weight category of cortisol that is inactivated reduction in the liver, leading to increased volume of cortisol in the blood, patients with metabolic basis of change, and see the changes in body weight. Liver dysfunction, sugar, protein, fat metabolism will be three major obstacles, will also lead to weight loss in patients with obesity or there.

Vitamin deficiency

Fatty liver, due to accumulation of fat in the diet combined lack of vitamin, a variety of patients-vitamin deficiency. Clinical visible peripheral neuritis, Sheyan, Koujiao Yan, Paper liver Yuban, hyperkeratosis, and so on.

Vitamin that is often a lack of fatty liver disease due to the lack of vitamin intake, but others argue that serious liver damage, liver tissue in the vitamin content also decreased, the accumulation of fat in the diet of vitamin merger is the lack of symptoms led to a lack of vitamin Two main reasons.

Jaundice

Jaundice is due to obstacles in bilirubin metabolism, the concentration of bilirubin in the blood increased, infiltration of organizations, in particular the sclera, dyed yellow skin and mucous membrane caused by.

Jaundice in accordance with the mechanism of clinical can be divided into hemolytic, liver cells and obstruction of 3. Fatty liver, often for the type of jaundice and liver cells, this type of jaundice frequently have fatigue, malaise, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Clinical data have revealed that only a small number of fatty liver disease who will appear mild jaundice. Fat in the liver was removed jaundice that is dissipated.