Jejunoileal bypass and nutritional liver injury
- PMID: 773338
Jejunoileal bypass and nutritional liver injury
Abstract
Jejunoileal bypass operation may be an experimental model of nutritional liver injury in man. The similarity of the bypass-induced hepatic histopathologic features to those of alchoholic liver disease raises the question of a common pathway in alcoholic and in postoperative (bypass) liver diseases.