Imagine you're in your office, we've got your cup of coffee, and you're about to start reviewing some of your result that have come back on your patients.

You look at one of the right-up of quadrant sonograms you recently ordered,

or perhaps it's an abdominal

ultrasound you ordered for a different reason, maybe a

gynecologic ultrasound.

Whatever it is, the liver was mentioned, and in it was mentioned hepatic Stetosis.

That's right, Hepatosis, a term that shows up on a lot of

ultrasounds.

We also see it in cat scans,

and for most of us, we see it and we think okay

person has little fatty liver but we don't really think what is the next step

but hepatic statosis non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic statoheapatitis, and of course the original pandemic, the obesity pandemic, is what we're going to be talking about today in this med geeks

podcast. Now we've all been there.

Now we've all been there. We've all had a report come back, CAT scan, a CT scan, an MRI, possibly some form of imaging

that's setopatics tootosis, and we have no idea what to do with it.

Well, let's dive in.

First of all, the umbrella term, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is subdivided into two specific diseases.

The first is non-alcoholic fatty liver, and the second is non-alcoholic fatty liver and the second is non-alcoholic

steido hepatitis. The difference in non-alcoholic fatty liver there is just

fat in the liver without significant inflammation. In Nash, however, there's hepatic inflammation,

and you cannot tell the difference between Nash and alcoholic Seattle hepatitis. People start out with non-alcoholic fatty liver,

they move on to Nash, and then guess what's the next up?

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