Nutmeg Liver

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Nutmeg Liver

A descriptive term for a liver with chronic passive congestion, a hepatopathy due to cardiac decompensation and failure, the appearance of which bears a visual verisimilitude to a cut nutmeg; if the congestion is severe, these changes may be accompanied by haemorrhagic necrosis

nutmeg liver

the appearance given by a chronic passive congestion of the liver; a mosaic of red and gray caused by blood replacement of necrotic periacinar hepatocytes contrasted with areas of grayish, fatty, surviving hepatocytes in the periportal tissue.

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