Fatty Liver (Patient Counselling Guide

Fatty liver, or steatosis, is an excessive accumulation of fats in the liver. Fatty liver with an accompanying enlargement and inflammation and cell death associated with this fatty change is known as steatohepatitis. Fatty liver may either be alcoholic or nonalcoholic. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease may be classified as simple fatty liver, if there is little or no liver inflammation or liver cell damage, or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis if it involves inflammation of the liver and damage to the liver cells, resulting in fibrosis (scarring), cirrhosis, or liver cancer. Alcoholic fatty liver disease is brought about by heavy alcohol consumption which damages the liver. This disease may progress to alcoholic hepatitis and/or alcoholic cirrhosis.

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