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        Definition of Fatty Liver

                           EXCESSIVE



                            ACCUMULATION

                            OF FAT IN THE LIVER


















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                                  Healthy Liver                Fatty Liver



                                                                  Symptoms of Fatty Liver










            ▪ Most of the time patients have no symptoms


            ▪ Fatty Liver may be detected incidentally by abnormal blood
                test (Liver Profile) or during an ultrasound examination


            ▪ Due to the nature of the disease causing no symptoms,

                patients with fatty liver normally live with it and take no
                remedial action to reverse the disease


            ▪ Some patients present at later stage of the disease with liver

                failure (Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis) or liver cancer
                (Hepatocellular Carcinoma)
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