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* DOES NOT REFER TO THE THE FAT STORES OF THE BODY!

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** Fatty substances accumulate or increase within the cytoplams of specific cells.

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** In some instances, the fat stores may be involved in the transfer of fat to these specific cells.

* Cellular fatty change is an important intracellular abnormality.

** Principally concerns the intracellular fat in hepatocytes.

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* Fatty change is commonly seen in three organs of the body.

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** Prinicpally in the '''liver'''.

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** Also in the '''kidney''' and the '''heart'''.

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** This is because these organs are either:

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*** Involved in the metabolism of fat, or

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*** Dependant upon lipids as an energy source.

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* Fatty change can be readily recognised at post-mortem.

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====Appearance of Fatty Change====

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~~This is the accumulation or increase of fatty substances within the cytoplasm of specific~~

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~~cells and does not refer to the fat stores of the body, although in some cases they may be~~

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~~involved in the transfer~~ of ~~fat to these specific cells.~~

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Fatty ~~change is commonly seen in three organs of the body, i.e. principally in the liver but~~

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~~also the kidney and heart; mainly because these organs are either involved in the metabolism~~

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~~of fat or dependant upon lipids as an energy source.~~

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~~It is an important condition, because it is something that can readily be recognised at postmortem~~

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~~examination.~~

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~~Appearance of fatty change~~

Liver: this is the predominant organ

involved in fatty change.

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