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Steatohepatitis: Nash and Ash - Falk Symposium U Leuschner

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher Marketing: This book is the proceedings of the Falk Symposium No. 121 on Steatohepatitis (NASH and ASH), held in Den Haag, The Netherlands, on October 14-15, 2000. The histological features of what we now call non-alcoholic steatohepatitis were described as early as 1962, and in 1980 the name non-alcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH was applied. The same year, NASH was recognized as one of the most common liver diseases in Western countries when viral hepatitis and heavy alcohol consumption were excluded. ASH, or alcoholic steatohepatitis, is more common than NASH, since alcohol is omnipresent in Western as well as Eastern cultures. Histologically NASH and ASH are similar or even identical. Morphological findings range from fatty degeneration to inflammation and fibrosis, and may end up in liver cirrhosis.