Causes
One is idiopathic: it can occur with long-term intake of high-fat and high-carbohydrate, low-protein foods, hunger, lack of exercise, and lack of anti-fat substances Primary fatty liver.
The other type is secondary: acute and chronic hepatitis, other infectious and parasitic diseases, chronic pancreatitis and various chronic metabolic diseases, diabetes, etc., the fat in the tissue is mobilized and stored to the liver and cause the disease.
Symptoms
Lack of energy
Loss of appetite
Occasional vomiting, abdominal distension
sometimes diarrhea, or alternating diarrhea and constipation
hepatomegaly
palpable liver without obvious tenderness
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Pathological changes
Simple fatty liver, only seen in hepatocyte steatosis;
Steatohepatitis, on the basis of steatosis, is accompanied by hepatic steatosis, necrosis and inflammatory cell infiltration, and may be accompanied by mallory bodies and fibrosis;
steatotic liver fibrosis, especially in fatty liver On the basis of steatohepatitis, there is fibrosis around central veins and around hepatocytes, and even fibrous septal junctions in the portal area. Fatty liver cirrhosis is the remodeling of hepatic lobule structure secondary to fatty liver, and the formation of pseudolobules and regenerative nodules.
The result of fatty liver disease can lead to systemic anemia, cardiovascular disease and even heart failure in dogs, endangering the life of pets.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis is mainly based on clinical symptoms combined with routine blood tests, biochemical tests, liver imaging tests, etc. .
In routine blood and biochemical examinations, aspartate aminotransferase, total cholesterol and triglyceride were the main indicators reflecting the condition of the liver.
Treatment
Modern people’s living standards have been greatly improved, but many pet owners still have a lot of blindness in pet feeding, overly spoiling pets, feeding too much high protein and high fat The food is the direct cause of the disease.
Therefore, in addition to drug treatment, it is necessary to change their eating habits, stop force-feeding, change to dog food, regularly and quantitatively, exercise appropriately, and lose weight.
