NAFLD: Is There Anything New under the Sun?

Amedeo Lonardo; Giovanni Targher

doi:10.3390/ijms18091955

NAFLD: Is There Anything New under the Sun?

Int J Mol Sci. 2017 Sep 12;18(9):1955. doi: 10.3390/ijms18091955.

Authors

Amedeo Lonardo¹, Giovanni Targher²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, 41125 Modena, Italy. a.lonardo@libero.it.
² Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, 37126 Verona, Italy. giovanni.targher@univr.it.

Abstract

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an "umbrella" definition that encompasses a spectrum of histological liver changes ranging from simple steatosis to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with/without fibrosis, "cryptogenic" cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), occurring in a dysmetabolic milieu, though in the absence of excessive alcohol consumption and other competing etiologies of chronic liver disease [1].[...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / complications
Disease Management
Epigenomics
Fibrosis / complications
Hepatitis C / complications
Humans
Liver / pathology
Liver Cirrhosis / complications
Liver Cirrhosis / congenital
Liver Neoplasms / complications
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease* / diagnosis
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease* / epidemiology
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease* / genetics
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease* / physiopathology
Pathology, Molecular

Supplementary concepts

Cirrhosis, Cryptogenic