Diagnosis of "fatty liver hepatosis." Symptoms and Treatment

Fatty hepatosis is a disease characterized by obesity (steatosis) of liver cells followed by massive necrosis. Further on the site of necrosis connective tissue grows.

Etiological factors

At present, a huge number of factors have a negative effect on the human body. In connection with this very common disease, doctors recognize fatty liver hepatosis, the symptoms and treatment of which are urgent topics in modern gastroenterology. There are the following groups of etiological factors.

1. Poisons that affect the body from the outside, including alcohol and medications.
2. The effect of internal factors arising in a number of diseases (ulcerative colitis and Whipple's disease, cystic sclerosis of the pancreas and diabetes, acute infections, sepsis), burns and injuries.
3. X-ray irradiation.
4. Dysfunction (prolonged starvation, poorly balanced diet).

Symptoms and Diagnosis

Clinical manifestations, as a rule, erased, and depend on the diseases that caused this pathology. However, it is still possible to identify the symptoms characteristic of the diagnosis of "fatty liver hepatosis ." And treatment, mainly aimed at eliminating the cause of the disease, should provide relief to the subjective state of the patient.

Often, with this pathology, there is dyspepsia, manifested by nausea, bitterness in the mouth, belching. Patients may experience discomfort, severity in the right hypochondrium. Fatty hepatosis is often accompanied by dysbiosis. In addition, with this pathology, visual impairment may occur.

Diagnosis is assisted by ultrasound of the liver, during which there is an increase in its size and in some cases, foci of increased echogenicity. The most specific study is a computerized tomography, through which the areas of fatty infiltration are identified in the liver.

A precise diagnosis of the disease is provided by a liver biopsy followed by a histological examination. The microscopic features of the affected cells are visualized by using special dyes.

Characteristic changes in blood tests. Here, there may be an increase in cholesterol, activity of transaminases and alkaline phosphatase.

Treatment and prevention

There are cases when not too clearly expressed for such ailment as fatty liver hepatosis, symptoms. And treatment begins to be carried out late, when the disease is already at a neglected stage. To deal with it, it will take more time. Sometimes only liver transplantation can help .

The first thing that must be provided to the patient is a rational diet and a proper drinking regime. When patients are diagnosed with fatty liver hepatosis, "Diet-5" must be observed without fail. It is necessary to exclude products that contribute to exacerbation of symptoms. These include all fatty, spicy, spicy, pickled food. Food is recommended to cook for a couple, cook or simmer. Overeating is not allowed. Favorable effect will have the presence in the daily diet of fruits and vegetables, especially cabbage. The minimum volume of fluid entering the body in the form of water, broths and teas, for a day should be at least two liters. Ideally, if the patient refuses from smoking and alcohol.

It is necessary to exclude the influence of all the above-mentioned etiological factors: to change the place of work in case of harmful production. At the same time, medicinal treatment of fatty liver hepatosis is also carried out . To do this, it is necessary to select safer drugs in this situation, also aimed at identifying and eliminating the diseases that caused this disease. There must also be therapy aimed at eliminating unpleasant symptoms.

After the diagnosis of "fatty liver hepatosis" (symptoms) has been established, and the treatment has been carried out in full, patients are registered for at least a year. At the same time, they regularly take tests, undergo an ultrasound examination of the liver.