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Liver function tests (LFTs or LFs), also referred to as a hepatic panel or liver panel, are groups of blood tests that provide information about the state of a patient's liver. [1] These tests include prothrombin time (PT/INR), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), albumin , bilirubin (direct and indirect), and others.
Notes: Additional cases of bicalutamide-associated adverse liver changes have been reported. These include 11 cases in a 2006 Spanish pharmacovigilance system report (including 1 case of hepatitis , 2 cases of cholestatic hepatitis , 1 case of jaundice , 4 cases of elevated liver enzymes , and 1 case of elevated bilirubin ; no deaths) [ 18 ...
Gastrointestinal pathology (including liver, gallbladder and pancreas) is a recognized sub-specialty discipline of surgical pathology.Recognition of a sub-specialty is generally related to dedicated fellowship training offered within the subspecialty or, alternatively, to surgical pathologists with a special interest and extensive experience in gastrointestinal pathology.
Liver showing chronic passive congestion associated with tricuspid valve incompetence. So called 'nutmeg liver', Split nutmeg, for those who have never seen this appearance. Close up of congested liver showing the 'nutmeg' appearance. Congestive hepatopathy, is liver dysfunction due to venous congestion, usually due to congestive heart failure.
Several hypotheses are given, such as it arises from sinusoidal epithelial damage, [13] increased sinusoidal pressure due to obstruction in blood outflow from the liver, or hepatocellular necrosis. [1] Peliosis hepatis is associated with infections, cancers, organ transplantation, blood disorders, autoimmune conditions, and certain medications. [6]
Nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH) is a rare liver disease, characterised by the growth of nodules within the liver, resulting in liver hyperplasia.While in many cases it is asymptomatic and thus goes undetected – or is only discovered incidentally while investigating some other medical condition – in some people it results in non-cirrhotic portal hypertension (NCPH).
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In histology (microscopic anatomy), the lobules of liver, or hepatic lobules, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic scale. The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue , consisting of portal triads, hepatocytes arranged in linear cords between a capillary network, and a central vein .