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Right Upper Quadrant Pain
Liver:
 - Infectious: Acute viral hepatitis, Liver abscess
 - Non-infectious: hepatitis (Alcohol, Medications),
Quadrant Pain Liver ... , Liver abscess ... Non-infectious: hepatitis ... Medications), Hepatic ... heart failure), Budd-Chiari
Causes of Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis
Hepatocellular - Liver Parenchyma
 • Infectious: Hepatitis C, A,
• Infectious: Hepatitis ... NAFLD, Autoimmune hepatitis ... Vasculature • Hepatic ... Vein: Budd-Chiari ... Congestion/CHF • Hepatic
Portal Hypertension - Differential Diagnosis
Portal Pressure = the pressure difference between the pressure in the portal
g/dl (suggest hepatic ... pericarditis • Budd ... Cirrhosis/acute hepatitis ... sarcoidosis) • Liver ... metastasis • Fatty liver
Causes of Ascites
Normal Peritoneum
Portal hypertension (SAAG > 1.1 g/dL)
  1. Hepatic congestionl
Hepatic congestionl ... insufficiency - Budd-Chiari ... Liver disease ... - Alcoholic hepatitis ... - Acute fatty liver
Serum Ascites Albumin Gradient (SAAG) - Differential Diagnosis
High albumin gradient (>1.1 g/dl):
 - Cirrhosis	
 - Alcoholic
- Alcoholic hepatitis ... - Fulminant hepatic ... failure - Hepatic ... vein thrombosis (Budd-Chiari ... - Acute fatty liver
Acute Liver Injury - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Vascular Causes of Acute Liver Injury: 
 • Hepatic vein:
Injury: • Hepatic ... vein: Budd-chiari ... Venoocclusive disease • Hepatic ... Chronic viral hepatitis ... #injury #hepatitis
Elevated Liver Function Tests (LFTs) - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Mild (<100-500): 
 • NAFLD
 • Cirrhosis
 •
Elevated Liver Function ... Chronic Viral Hepatitis ... • Acute Viral Hepatitis ... (Drug-induced liver ... ) • Non-hepatic
Hepatomegaly - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Malignant
 • Primary Carcinoma
 • Metastases
 • Lymphoma
 • Leukemia
 • Polycythemia
Non-Malignant • Fatty Liver ... Heart Failure • Budd-Chiari ... Infectious • Hepatitis ... • Alcoholic Hepatitis ... • Drug Induced Hepatitis
Common Etiologies of Cirrhosis

Inflammation

 - Hepatitis B (15 percent)

 - Hepatitis C (47 percent)

 - Schistosomiasis
Inflammation - Hepatitis ... 15 percent) - Hepatitis ... Nonalcoholic fatty liver ... Venoocclusive disease (Budd-Chiari
Drug Induced Liver Injury (DILI) - Stepwise Diagnosis Algorithm
DILI suspicion
Features toxic aetiology: Skin involvement, Kidney injury,
Drug Induced Liver ... disease, Hepatic ... presentation: Hepatic ... ascites), Chronic hepatitis ... • Autoimmune hepatitis