Common Compensated chronic liver disease exam questions for medical finals, OSCEs and MRCP PACES
Question 1.
What are the common causes of chronic liver disease (CLD)?
- Alcohol
- Commonest cause of CLD in the UK
- Viral
- B, C and D
- NAFLD/NASH
- Due to diabetes, metabolic syndrome
- DM type II, Hypertension, Obesity, Hyperlipidaemia
- Due to diabetes, metabolic syndrome
- Genetic
- Cystic fibrosis
- Hereditary haemachromatosis
- Wilson’s
- Glycogen storage diseases
- Autoimmune
- PBC
- PSC
- AIH
- Drugs
- Isoniazid
- Methotrexate, amiodarone, phenytoin, sodium valproate, nitrofurantoin
- Vascular
- Budd-Chiari
- Idiopathic/Cryptogenic
Question 2.
What blood tests examine synthetic liver function?
- The best test of synthetic liver function are PT (prothrombin time [or INR, which is derived from PT]), platelets and albumin
Question 3.
What are the complications of CLD?
- Variceal bleeding
- Ascites
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Encephalopathy
- Hepatorenal syndrome
- HCC