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* DOES NOT REFER TO THE THE FAT STORES OF THE BODY!
 
* 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.
 
* Cellular fatty change is an important intracellular abnormality.
 
** Principally concerns the intracellular fat in hepatocytes.
 
** 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====
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
 
Liver: this is the predominant organ
 
involved in fatty change.
 
involved in fatty change.
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