Steatohepatitis

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In medicine, steatohepatitis is a type of fatty liver disease characterized by lobular hepatitis.[1]

Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver, can be detected by liver biopsy, or can be suggested by elevated blood levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta).[2]

Classification

Alcoholic steatohepatitis

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is associated with obesity, diabetes mellitus, or hyperlipidemia.[1] NASH may be caused by the single-nucleotide polymorphisms rs2854116 (c.455T>C) and rs2854117 (c.482C>T) of apolipoprotein C-III which are also associated with insulin resistance and hypertriglyceridemia.[3]

Treatment

Clinical practice guidelines direct management.[4]

Weight loss

Weight loss may help according to a randomized controlled trial[5]; however, "the sparse data and high risk of bias preclude us from drawing any definite conclusion on lifestyle programme or orlistat for treatment of NAFLD" according to the Cochrane Collaboration. [6]

Antioxidants

Vitamin E, an antioxidant, may improve liver histology in a randomized controlled trial of 247 patients who did not have diabetes.[7]

In 2005, a meta-analysis concluded that Vitamin E supplementation may actually be harmful when used for the prevention of vascular disease.[8]

Cholesterol reduction

Simvastatin did not help in a pilot study.[9]

Increasing insulin sensitivity

Metformin, a biguanide that increases insulin sensitivity and has additional effects, may help according to preliminary studies.[10][11][12][13]

Thiazolidinedione derivatives, normally used for treating diabetes mellitus type 2 by increasing sensitivity to insulin, have been studied for the treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

Pioglitazone did not improve liver histology in a randomized controlled trial of 247 patients who did not have diabetes.[7]

Previously, pioglitazone improved nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in patients with impaired glucose tolerance or diabetes mellitus type 2 according to a preliminary randomized controlled trial of 55 patients.[2] Also, rosiglitazone improved histology and liver transaminases in a trial 63 patients that excluded patients taking insulin (30% had diabetes and were taking other drugs)[14], with longer treatment of 44 patients[15].

Surgery

While bariatric surgery would seem effective, it has not been studied.[16]

Prognosis

In a study of cirrhosis, obesity may be the cause in 12% of patients.[17][1]

Among patients with steatohepatitis, mortality at 10 - 13 years is 3%[18] to 7%[19].

References

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