Presentation ranges from asymptomatic to fulminant liver failure or chronic liver disease (subacute Budd-Chiari)
Classic triad includes abdominal pain, ascites, and hepatomegaly
Patien...
Treatment follows a stepwise therapeutic strategy; acuity dictates need for surgery.
Interventions are medical, endovascular, and surgical.
The overall goals of therapy are:
Relief of hepatic v...
Daily weights
Smoking cessation
Avoid NSAIDs
Continue to monitor worsening symptoms (i.e., RUQ pain, ascites, jaundice)
Restrict dietary sodium ...
Ascites; Cholestasis of Pregnancy, Cirrhosis, Hypercoagulable States
Algorithms: AST Elevation; Hepatomegaly
Clinicians should consider BCS in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with acute liver failure, acute hepatitis, or chronic liver disease, particularly if the patient has...
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Chronic hepatitis with cirrhosis. A photomicrograph of the liver from a patient with long-standing chronic active hepatitis B shows hepatocellular nodules and chronically inflamed fibrous septa.
Chronic hepatitis with cirrhosis. A photomicrograph of the liver from a patient with long-standing chronic active hepatitis B shows hepato...
Cirrhosis of the liver. The consequence of chronic hepatic injury is the formation of regenerating nodules separated by bands of fibrous connective tissue (blue).
Cirrhosis of the liver. The consequence of chronic hepatic injury is the formation of regenerating nodules separated by bands of fibrous c...
<bold>Figure 32-2</bold> Ascites.
<bold><italic>Figure 16-9</bold> Ascites.</bold>