Abstract
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a metabolic stress liver injury, including simple hepatic steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Liver fibrosis in NASH patients progressed by an average of 7 to 10 years, and the incidence of cirrhosis in NAH patients was only 0.6% to 3.0% after 10 to 20 years of follow-up. This case reports a 21-year-old man with pituitary dysfunction and cirrhosis, whose condition develops rapidly. The mechanism may be that growth hormone deficiency affects liver signaling transduction pathways to make the liver metabolism disordered, causing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. In this report, the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of this case of cirrhosis duo to hypopituitarism in adolescence are reviewed retrospectively to improve the understanding of the diagnosis and therapy of this disease. Key words: Hypopituitarism; Growth hormone deficiency; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; Cirrhosis
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