Date of Publication :21st October 2020
Abstract: It is known that chronic ethanol treatment can increase the degree of liver damage by hypoxia. The amount of fat in the liver increases progressively during the period of alcohol intake. Other workers have also suggested that women are more likely to develop alcoholic liver disease than men at equivalent levels of consumption. Alcoholic liver disease is usually classified histologically into fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis. The histological features of alcoholic hepatitis included degenerative changes in the hepatocytes , hepatocytes necrosis, infiltration with polymorphonuclear leucocytes and deposition of Mallory’s alcoholic hyaline (eosinophilic perinuclear cytoplasmic inclusions).
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