Relation of steatosis to cirrhosis

Thaler, H.

Clinics in Gastroenterology 4(2): 273-280

1975


ISSN/ISBN: 0300-5089
PMID: 1126047
Document Number: 88487
Steatosis of the liver is a harmless symptom of disturbed lipid metabolism but not a disease. The cause of the steatosis, and not the fat accumulation by itself, produces cirrhosis. There is no evidence so far in man that cirrhosis may be caused by nutritional deficiencies alone. Even cirrhosis after small bowel bypass procedures seems to be result from metabolic rather than nutritional disturbances.

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