TY - GEN AU - Ahmed Mohamed Bahaa_ElDin AU - Ali Ahmed ElHindawi , AU - Hosney Mohamed Salama , AU - Sahar Ezzat Lashin , TI - Pattern of Steatosis and Histopathological Changes in Patients with Chronic HCV / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Mohamed Bahaa_ElDin , N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - This study was conducted on 27 patients including 21 males and 6 females with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and bright liver by Ultrasonography All 27 patients were subjected to complete history taking , clinical and physical examination , abdominal ultrasonography , laboratory investigations , and liver biopsy Steatosis was present in liver biopsies of 19 patients (704in hundered precent) Out of these 19 patients , 13 had mild steatosis , 3 had moderate steatosis and 3 had severe steatosis Body mass index (BMI) and serum albumin were significantly higher in patients with histopathological steatosis compared with those without In conclusion , hepatic steatosis was highly prevalent in patients with chronic HCV infection and is mild in the majority of casesIt was not related to HCV RNA level and might be due to associated non - alcoholic steatosis or steatohepatitis ER -