Drug-induced or toxic liver disease with chronic fatty liver disease (Q43593): Difference between revisions

This is a chronic drug-induced steatosis characterised by relatively large triglyceride globules, which effectively fill the hepatocyte, displace the nucleus and other intracellular constituents to the periphery. Some patients show steatohepatitis, steatosis with focal necrosis and inflammatory cell infiltrate, leading to the development of cirrhosis.