Diabetes as a cause of loss of liver function

What is it about?

Hepatogenous diabetes is directly caused by significant loss of liver function: i.e., it develops after cirrhosis onset. Although hepatogenous diabetes shows distinct pathophysiological and clinical features, it is not considered as an autonomous entity because of the difficulty to distinguish this condition from classical type 2 diabetes mellitus, which is often asssociated to chronic liver disease. This article provides information to distingish hepatogenous diabetes from type 2 diabetes occurring in subjects with chronic liver disease on the basis of the clinical feature usually found in these patients.

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Why is it important?

Differentiating hepatogenous diabetes from classical type 2 diabetes may be relevant for both prognostic and therapeutic purposes.