Question 1

what is cirrhosis of the liver?

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Scars in the liver: Chronic inflammation of liver cells can result in permanent scarring to develop in the liver. This is called cirrhosis. Common causes are excess alcohol intake, viral hepatitis infection, certain drugs and hereditary diseases. Blood tests to check liver function and ultrasound examination can help evaluate the overall health of the liver.

Question 2

what causes cirrhosis of the liver?

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Many causes: Cirrhosis is the way the liver heals itself after repeated, severe or ongoing insults.  These can be multifactorial, such as toxins (alcohol, certain meds), viruses (hepatitis), or even fatty degeneration (nash).

Question 3

how does cirrhosis affect my liver?

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Several ways: The most easy wdy to explain it is to say it makes it unable to handle and detoxify normal body wates that it should. It can be fatal.

Question 4

what leads to cirrhosis of the liver?

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Many Things: Hepatitis c, fatty liver, and alcohol abuse are the most common causes. Other causes include blockage of the bile duct can cause biliary cirrhosis, inherited diseases such as: cystic fibrosis glycogen storage diseases, Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency, hemochromatosis, and wilson's disease.

Question 5

common symptoms of cirrhosis of liver?

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Cirrhosis: Weakness, decreased appetite, weight loss, nose bleeds. More serious are jaundice, confusion, impotence, swelling of abdomen & legs.

Question 6

some symptoms of cirrhosis of the liver?

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Quite a few: When cirrhosis is well established patients develop portal hypertension (high pressure in the veins in stomach, spleen, and intestines) and blood is shunted away from the liver.  Patients then develop ascites (fluid build up in abdomen), enlarged spleen and low platelet count, encephalopathy (confusion), and varices (enlarged veins inside stomach and esophagus) which can lead to massive bleeding.

Question 7

what can lead to cirrhosis of the liver?

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Hepatitis, alcohol: Cirrhosis is mainly fibrosis formation on liver  (scarring of the liver tissue).Multiple medical conditions can lead to cirrhosis, among the most common are viral hepatitis mainly the chronic type: hepatitis b and c, other common causes are alcohol abuse and less common: hereditary  metabolic conditions like wilson  disease (cooper deposits) and hemochromatosis iron deposits in liver ; medications.

Question 8

what are tests of cirrhosis of the liver?

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Biopsy: Blood tests and imaging studies can suggest a diagnosis of cirrhosis, confirmation requires biopsy (usually needle biopsy) and examination of the tissue by a pathologist.

Question 9

cirrhosis of the liver is an effect of what?

Accepted Answer

See below: For a long time in the us alcohol was the major player  now hepatitis c is but both can as well as hepatitis b  also there are rarer causes but these are the major causes.

Question 10

tell me symptoms for cirrhosis of the liver?

Accepted Answer

Cirrhosis: Weakness, decreased appetite, weight loss, nose bleeds. More serious are jaundice, confusion, impotence, swelling of abdomen & legs.

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