What are the diagnostic criteria for fatty liver

With the continuous improvement of living conditions, many people now suffer from fatty liver. The damage of fatty liver to the liver and the whole body is relatively serious, so many people want to know what are the diagnostic criteria for fatty liver? The following content gives a detailed introduction to the diagnostic criteria for fatty liver to many patients with fatty liver, so you can have a comprehensive understanding.

Diagnostic criteria

1. No history of drinking or the amount of alcohol consumed is 140 grams per week for men and 70 grams per week for women;

2. Exclude specific diseases that may cause fatty liver, such as viral hepatitis, drug-induced liver disease, total parenteral nutrition, and hepatolenticular degeneration.

3. In addition to the clinical manifestations of the primary disease, there are non-specific symptoms and signs such as fatigue, indigestion, dull pain in the liver area, and hepatosplenomegaly.

4. There may be metabolic syndromes such as overweight/visceral obesity, increased fasting blood sugar, dyslipidemia, and hypertension.

5. Serum transaminase and glutamyl transpeptidase levels may increase from mild to moderate, usually with alanine aminotransferase elevation as the main

6. Liver imaging findings meet the imaging diagnostic criteria for diffuse fatty liver

7. The histological changes in liver biopsy meet the pathological diagnostic criteria for fatty liver disease.

Anyone who meets items 1 to 5 and any one of items 6 or 7 above can be diagnosed with fatty liver.

Drug treatment

So far, there is no effective Western medicine for preventing and treating fatty liver. Long-term conditioning treatment with traditional Chinese medicine is better. Western medicine often uses liver cell protection, fat-removing drugs and antioxidants, such as vitamins B, C, E, lecithin, ursodeoxycholic acid, silymarin, inosine, coenzyme A, reduced glutathione, taurine, botulinum toxin orotate, galactopyrrol, and certain lipid-lowering drugs.

The above content comprehensively introduces the diagnosis criteria of fatty liver, and also introduces drug treatment. For many patients suffering from fatty liver, they must pay attention to it. After understanding the diagnosis criteria of fatty liver, they should improve their fatty liver through various methods as soon as possible, so as to ensure the health of their liver and body.