Description

A number of heart diseases may be complicated by liver disease.


Heart diseases that may be complicated by liver disease include"

(1) cardiomyopathy, ischemic or nonischemic (left-sided)

(2) complete transposition of the great arteries after atrial switch surgery (right-sided)

(3) cor triatriatum (left-sided)

(4) Ebstein anomaly (right-sided)

(5) Eisenmenger syndrome (right-sided)

(6) Fontan physiology (right-sided)

(7) left ventricular outflow obstruction (left-sided)

(8) mitral valve disease (left-sided)

(9) pericardial disease (right-sided)

(10) pulmonary hypertension (right-sided)

(11) pulmonary valve disease (right-sided)

(12) tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with residual pulmonary regurgitation (right-sided)

(13) tricuspid valve disease (right-sided)

 

Liver diseases complicating heart disease may include:

(1) congestive hepatopathy

(2) fibrosis

(3) nodular regeneration and/or cirrhosis

 

Causes of liver disease may include:

(1) passive congestion

(2) ischemic injury

(3) drug-induced injury

(4) viral hepatitis

(5) shared genetic defects


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