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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) [4] [5] Causes: Genetic, environmental: Risk factors: Obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus, liver disease: Diagnostic method: Ultrasound, Coexisting metabolic disorders, Liver biopsy: Treatment: Weight loss (in case of obesity) Dietary reduction of fructose and glucose [6 ...
Steatohepatitis is a type of fatty liver disease, characterized by inflammation of the liver with concurrent fat accumulation in liver. Mere deposition of fat in the liver is termed steatosis , and together these constitute fatty liver changes.
This is a list of drugs and substances that are known or suspected to cause Stevens–Johnson syndrome This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]
For people affected by NAFLD, the 10-year survival rate was about 80%. The rate of progression of fibrosis is estimated to be one per 7 years in NASH and one per 14 years in NAFLD, with an increasing speed. [9] [10] There is a strong relationship between these pathologies and metabolic illnesses (diabetes type II, metabolic syndrome). These ...
In medicine, not otherwise specified (NOS) is a subcategory in systems of disease/disorder classification such as ICD-9, ICD-10, or DSM-IV.It is generally used to note the presence of an illness where the symptoms presented were sufficient to make a general diagnosis, but where a specific diagnosis was not made.
European studies suggest a disease incidence of 1 to 2 people affected per 100,000 population with a prevalence of 10 to 25 people per 100,000 population. [42] [46] [47] [48] The disease has a bimodal peak occurring between the ages of 10 and 20 and then later in life between the ages of 40 and 50. [43] [48]
In health care, diagnosis codes are used as a tool to group and identify diseases, disorders, symptoms, poisonings, adverse effects of drugs and chemicals, injuries and other reasons for patient encounters. Diagnostic coding is the translation of written descriptions of diseases, illnesses and injuries into codes from a particular classification.