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Med Int Mex 2009; 25 (1)

Non-alcoholic fatty liver: a didactic approach for a latent problem (first part)

Córdova PVH, Alemán OG, Cantú GA

Language: Spanish
References: 120
Page: 38-57
PDF size: 423.09 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) is a little diagnosed but more and more frequent because of their association with metabolic syndrome, predominantly with obesity and diabetes mellitus. In our country every day we find more patients facing liver cirrhosis, that were not timely diagnosed with this disease, situation capable of transforming its natural history. The following paper attempts to define the disease, revealing their causes, describing pathophysiologic mechanisms that generate it, to establish routes diagnostic, therapeutic and offer different approaches to mention the complications in the adult population, through an extensive analysis of selected bibliographies by a group of doctors trained in clinical research, with the aim of offering a final document that provides the most relevant topic in recent years, due to its extension has been divided into several chapters. More than nine hundred citations and electronic spaces were studied to eventually include the material contained only five hundred and seven references. In his last chapter, presented exclusively works by Mexican researchers and annexed various suggestions of authors in terms of dietary management and drug therapy, in an experiment on 97 patients treated over a period of four years.


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