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USIDMS Liver
Question | Answer |
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What are the 3 ligaments found in the liver? | Falciform ligament, Ligamentum teres, & Ligamnentum venosum |
What is the fissure found in the liver? | Main lobar fissure |
What are the names of the 4 lobes of the liver? | Right, Left, Caudate, & Quadrate |
What is effected with Hepatocellular Disease? | Liver cells or hepatocytes |
How is Hepatocellular Disease treated? | With supportive measures & drugs |
What causes Obstructive Disease? | Bile excretion is blocked |
How is Obstructive Disease treated? | Surgically |
Direct Bilirubin is caused by which disease? | Both. Obstructive Disease or Hepatocellular Disease |
Indirect Bilirubin is caused by which disease? | Hepatocellular Disease |
Elevated serum bilirubin causes what? | Jaundice |
The liver is suspended from the diaphragm and anterior abdominal wall by what? | Falciform Ligament |
The most common benign tumor of the liver is? | Cavernous Hemangioma |
Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma are likely to have had what? | Cirrhosis |
Elevation of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is associated with what? | Biliary obstruction |
In what region of the body is the liver located? | Right Hypochondrium |
Which liver vessels have echogenic walls on ultrasound? | Portal Veins |
Which LFT is present in tissues with a high rate of metabolic activity, such as the heart and liver? | AST/SGOT |
Which LFT is specific for evaluating liver function? | ALT/SGPT |
What is Fatty Infiltration? | An increase in the amount of lipids within the liver cells causing the liver to have difficulty metabolizing fat |
Which liver cells carry out the most of the metabolic unctions of the liver? | Hepatocytes |