[Disturbances of lipid metabolism and fatty liver].

Fatty liver (FL) is a frequently diagnosed liver disease. There are presented the etiological factors causing FL, including the most frequent alcohol, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipoproteinemias and drugs. There are discussed some disturbances of lipid metabolism leading to FL. Morphologically we can distinguish FL with large or small fatty droplets. The more severe kind of the disease is FL with hepatitis (steatohepatitis). Symptoms of FL are not characteristic, as well as there are absent typical changes in biochemical analyzes. There are presented methods of the liver visualization (USG, CT) used in the diagnostics of FL. Treatment of FL includes of the elimination of etiological factors first of all, there is still under debate the supportive action of pharmacotherapy in FL.