Showing posts with label Liver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liver. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

NASH

obese pt with elevated LFTs but normal viral hepatitis profile and not taking hepatitis induced medication ...
with elevated lipid profile-----------consider Non alcoholic steatotic hepatitis....

Hepatitis c and Alcohol abuse

we all know that treatment of Hep c is INF and Ribavarin but if pt is alcoholic dont start the treatment ....send him for drug abuse counselling...once pt stops EToh ---u can start treatment