Sunday, March 9, 2008

What is the liver, cirrhosis of the performance?

Cirrhosis is a common chronic liver disease, is caused by various reasons, such as hepatitis, schistosomiasis, alcoholism and the use of liver damage from exposure to certain drugs and chemical poisons caused by diffuse liver cells change necrosis and liver cells further damage to the structure, the final result liver deformation stiffen, thus causing liver dysfunction and increased portal pressure in the various clinical manifestations. Early patients often loss of appetite, abdominal distension, diarrhea, inferocostal space pain, asthenia, and other symptoms. Along with the development of disease, patients will be some serious complications, such as ascites, Splenomegaly. Because esophageal and gastric varices, often induced upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Can be advanced to anemia, weight loss, edema, and even liver failure which led to the coma. May also decline because of systemic resistance in case of secondary infection. Patients found to have abnormal liver function and should be promptly to the hospital for examination, identify the causes and timely treatment, to prevent liver damage.

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