Hyperthyroidism can cause liver damage?

Hyperthyroidism can cause liver damage, mainly in the heavier hyperthyroid patients. Cause liver damage was caused by : ① liver relative hypoxia : This is because hyperthyroidism oxygen consumption increased, causing liver relative lack of oxygen. ② catabolism hyperthyroidism : hyperthyroidism when catabolism increased significantly, resulting in increase in liver glycogen depletion, various nutritional substances such as amino acids, vitamins excessive consumption. ③ heart failure : can be found in patients with hyperthyroidism. Due to the presence of heart failure, resulting in hepatic venous congestion and the same was true necrosis. ④ concurrent infection and shock. Hyperthyroid patients experienced swelling of the liver is not uncommon, but the extent of liver enlargement generally lighter. Generally, there is no jaundice, but hyperthyroidism can be very serious jaundice. But there are exceptions, individual hyperthyroid patients with hyperthyroidism may not be too heavy, and the merger of jaundice. This may have been due to their own potential liver lesions, hyperthyroidism only add to the original liver disease as a factor. Laboratory checks to be discovered that some patients with hyperthyroidism abnormal liver function. Abnormal liver function index is the most common serum alanine aminotransferase increased, a few have lower serum albumin, Jaundice occurred were significantly higher serum bilirubin. Although some patients with hyperthyroidism emerged jaundice, but tests showed slightly elevated serum bilirubin, a note there watching jaundice.