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TOPIC: LIVER, GALLBLADDER & BILIARY TRACT
DISORDERS
DATE:
VENUE:
Liver
Biliary Tract
Gallbladder
LIVER
• INFLAMMATION: HEPATITIS
• ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE
• CIRRHOSIS
• OTHER DISORDERS:
• HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
HEPATITIS
• Duration
• Pattern of hepatocyte injury and inflammation
• Any scarring present
Acute hepatitis & Chronic hepatitis
Multiple
Rounded lesions
Size varies (almost same “cohort”)
Usually in the parenchyma
BILIARY TRACT DISORDERS
Primary biliary cirrhosis Primary sclerosing cholangitis
• Middle aged females • Median age 30 yrs, males
• Associated conditions: Sjogren synd, • Associated conditions: IBD
scleroderma. • Anti mitochondrial ab less frequent +,
• Auto antibodies + (anti mitochondrial), ANCA + more frequent
raised ALP • Fibrosis & destruction of Extrahepatic and
intrahepatic ducts in all sizes
• Destruction of intrahepatic bile ducts • Large size ducts – chronic inflammation &
(small & medium sized intrahepatic edema
ducts)
• Portal inflammation (non-suppurative: • Small ducts – fibrosis (onion skin
lymphocytes & plasma cells) appearance)
• & scarring • Risk of malignancy (cholangiocarcinoma)
• Radiology: Normal • Radiology: strictures, beading of large
• ** ↑alkaline phosphatase ducts, pruning of smaller ducts
• ** ↑ conjugated bilirubin • ** ↑alkaline phosphatase
• Chronic destructive • ** ↑ conjugated bilirubin
• Cholangitis of intrahepatic bile ducts • Fibrosing cholangitis, with
periductal fibrosis
PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS
Radiology: strictures, beading of large ducts, pruning of smaller ducts
Primary sclerosing cholangitis