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In hepatology congestive hepatopathy also known as nutmeg liver and chronic passive congestion of the liver is liver dysfunction due to venous congestion usually cardiac dysfunction i.e. right heart failure or (less specifically) congestive heart failure. The gross pathological appearance of a liver affected by chronic passive congestion is speckled like a grated nutmeg kernel; the dark spots represent the dilated and congested hepatic venules and small hepatic veins.
