Non-alcoholic fatty liver and cardiovascular disease: an emerging relationship.

نویسندگان

  • Katerina Baou
  • Charalambos Vlachopoulos
  • Emanuel Manesis
  • Athanasios Archimandritis
  • Christodoulos Stefanadis
چکیده

N on-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a clinicopathological condition characterised by a wide spectrum of histological abnormalities and clinical outcomes. The underlying histological abnormality is hepatic steatosis, characterised by fat accumulation, which may progress to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), characterised in turn by steatosis, periportal inflammation, and ballooning degeneration, with or without fibrosis. NASH may progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Hellenic journal of cardiology : HJC = Hellenike kardiologike epitheorese

دوره 48 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007