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What causes an enlarged liver? Genetic disorders that cause fat, protein, or other substances to build up; Abnormal growths may cause an enlarged liver. These may be due to: Cysts; Tumors that start in or spread to the liver; A problem with blood flow. This may be due to a variety of conditions such as: Congestive heart failure, a condition where the heart doesn't pump blood well
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- Hepatic vein thrombosis, a blockage of veins in your liver; It might also be caused by veno-occlusive disease, which is a blockage in the small veins in your liver. How you get treated for your enlarged liver depends on what's causing it. For example, if drinking too much alcohol is the source of the problem, you need to stop to avoid damage.
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Fatty Liver Weight loss usually causes elevated liver enzymes to go down. The type of diet used to cause weight loss is probably not important as long as weight loss occurs. In fact, fatty liver can be induced by a high-carbohydrate diet, which causes high insulin levels.
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- Enlarged liver: A liver that is greater in size than normal. Enlarged liver is also known as hepatomegaly. Enlargement of the liver can occur in a wide variety of diseases. Examples include congestive heart failure, congenital diseases of metabolism, infections, tumors, and alcohol use.
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- Possible causes of massive hepatomegaly include cancer (either primary in the liver or metastasized from elsewhere in the body), right-sided heart failure, myeloproliferative disorders (a disease of the red blood cells), and severe alcoholic or non-alcoholic liver disease.
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Fatty Liver Disease: 10 Common Symptoms Fatty Liver Disease: 10 Common Symptoms. According to doctors, a fatty liver isn’t damaging to the body on its own accord. However, the accumulation of excessive fatty tissue can lead to severe liver damage—including inflammation and scarring. A fatty liver occurs when you take in more fat and calories than your liver can process. As a result, simple fats build up in the liver cells, making the liver prone to damage. The most common reason for the development of fatty liver disease is obesity—with obese individuals increasing their chances of developing the condition by about 75-percent.
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- Alcoholism also can cause fatty liver to develop, as can rapid weight loss and poor eating habits. In many people, there are no symptoms of a fatty liver. ... Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a buildup of extra fat in liver cells that is not caused by alcohol consumption.
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- Article Sections. Mild elevations in liver chemistry tests such as alanine transaminase and aspartate transaminase can reveal serious underlying conditions or have transient and benign etiologies. Potential causes of liver transaminase elevations include viral hepatitis, alcohol use, medication use, steatosis or steatohepatitis, and cirrhosis.
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The Liver Fatty liver is simply the build-up of fat in the liver. Fat in the liver usually does not cause liver damage. However, certain other conditions and diseases can be associated with the development of fatty liver. Research is ongoing to uncover what processes may take place to trigger fat build-up in the liver.
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- NAFLD describes a range of conditions caused by a build-up of fat within liver cells. Simple fatty liver (hepatic steatosis). Normally, very little fat is stored in liver cells. Simple fatty liver means that excess fat builds up (accumulates) in liver cells.
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Hepatomegaly Suggests: hepatitis, chronic heart failure, sarcoid, early alcoholic cirrhosis, tricuspid incompetence with a pulsatile liver. Suggests: primary hepatoma or secondary tumours. NB: a small liver is typical in late cirrhosis and nodular cirrhosis typically produces a small shrunken liver not a large craggy one. Ask particularly about alcohol consumption, sexual activity, intravenous (IV) drug abuse, blood transfusions and recent travel.
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- You may be told you have a fatty liver.. Many people have a buildup of fat in the liver, and for most people it causes no symptoms and no problems. But in some people, the fat causes inflammation and damages cells in the liver. Because of the damage, the liver doesn't work as well as it should. NASH can get worse and cause scarring of the liver, which leads to cirrhosis. But the disease doesn't always get worse. NASH is similar to the kind of liver disease that is caused by long-term, heavy drinking.
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Top 30 Doctor insights on: Fatty Tissue Around Kidneys Hello. : Hello. I donâ€™t know what the cause of your fatty liver is. However, a major cause of fatty liver is drinking too much alcohol. Alcohol use combined with poor diet, obesity, abnormally high iron levels and hepatitis c can increase the chances of getting fatty liver. There are also people who have fatty livers who donâ€™t have an illness and who donâ€™t drink. Some people can develop a fatty liver off drinking really heavily for a weekend, and the fat decreases when they stop drinking.
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Fatty Liver In some patients, the excess fat can cause inflammation called steatohepatitis (steato=fat+hepar=liver +itis=inflammation), although there is no relationship between the amount of fat present and the potential for inflammation.
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- The prevalence of mechanical large-bowel obstruction (LBO) increases with age as does its main causes, colon cancer and diverticulitis. Sigmoid volvulus and cecal volvulus are also potential causes of this disorder. [2] See the following images.
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Fatty Liver Causes But recent studies have concluded that a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a completely different disease, which can lead to serious consequences. The most common non alcoholic fatty liver causes are: 1  Food habits: eating high-fat concentrated, fried food with high cholesterol; “fast food”; sugar rich snacks. 2  Lack or very low physical activity. 3  Being overweight or obese.
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The Benign Liver Tumor, or Liver Hemangioma The Largest of the Benign Liver Tumor Have Indicators. However, when they do get large enough to place stress on other organs they can begin to cause problems. Two of the indicators may be nausea or the feeling of fullness, even after little intake of food. If they become very large there is a danger that they burst, and this is a major issue.
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Prevalence and Importance of Small Hepatic Lesions Found at CT in Patients with Cancer Jones et al (1) reported the presence of liver lesions smaller than 15 mm in 17% of 1,454 outpatients at abdominal CT; the small hepatic lesions were deemed benign in 51% of the 82% of patients with a known underlying malignancy.
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Liver Basics: Entire Lesson Liver disease is caused by damage to the liver. 1  Liver damage can be caused by many things, including: 2  Viruses (such as the hepatitis viruses) 3  Drinking alcohol heavily. 4  Being very overweight. 5  Certain medications--for example, acetaminophen (Tylenol), can cause severe liver damage in people who also have heavy alcohol use.
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Enlarged liver There are many condition that may cause swollen liver or enlarged liver, including liver disorders such as hepatitis and various other diseases not directly related to the liver....more ». » Review Causes of Enlarged liver: Causes | Symptom Checker » | Assessment Questionnaire ».
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Cirrhosis of the liver Causes of liver cirrhosis. Two of the most common causes of cirrhosis of the liver are long-term excessive alcohol consumption and hepatitis C, but a number of other conditions also lead to liver damage and cirrhosis.
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- Infectious causes of enlarged liver and spleen. Enlarged liver and spleen may be caused by infections including: Bacterial infections. Cat scratch disease (bacterial infection). Epstein-Barr virus infection (infectious mononucleosis). Infections caused by parasites such as malaria.
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- Enlarged liver, called hepatomegaly, is an increase in size of the liver, whatever the cause. In some cases, both the liver and spleen become enlarged together, and the resulting condition is called hepatosplenomegaly.
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- The size and weight of your liver increases with your age and body weight. Sex and body shape also influence the size of your liver. Hepatomegaly is the enlargement of your liver. An enlarged liver is a sign that something is seriously wrong with your health. Hepatomegaly is always a cause for medical evaluation, although not all of the underlying conditions that cause it are medical emergencies.
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- Yamashita Y, Mitsuzaki K, Yi T, et al. Small hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic liver damage: prospective comparison of detection with dynamic MR imaging and helical CT of the whole liver.
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Picture of the Liver 1 Hepatitis: Inflammation of the liver, usually caused by viruses like hepatitis A, B, and C. Hepatitis can have non-infectious causes too, including heavy drinking, drugs, allergic reactions, or obesity. 2  Cirrhosis: Long-term damage to the liver from any cause can lead to permanent scarring, called cirrhosis.