[What happens in the liver during artificial feeding?].
The livers of healthy individuals, where different products are synthesized and metabolized, carries out a series of complex metabolic functions. Furthermore, there is an important relationship with the digestive apparatus, such as for the secretion, excretion and re-circulation of bile, and also with the various hormonal systems or the bacterial microflora of the intestine. When artificial feeding (AF) is used, this may lead to changes in the functionality and structure of the liver, which may or may not be reversible depending on the base situation of the patient and the type of AF administered. This would be enough to bring about a series of changes followed by adaptive phenomena in the liver itself. The degree of hepatic damage triggered by artificial feeding will depend on the interaction of all these elements and the specific characteristics of each case.
Morán Penco
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Departamento de Cirugía, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Extremadura, Avda. de Elvas, s/n. 06070 Badajoz.
Salas Martínez
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Maciá Botejara
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D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition / Q000009:adverse effects; D012307:Risk Factors