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How can a person have cirrhosis of the liver if he is not a drinker or drug user?

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Cirrhosis: Cirrhosis is end result of scarring. It can happen due to other disease processes that can cause scarring including autoimmune hepatitis, hemochromatosis, NASH and others.

Answered 5/26/2016

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Most aren't!: There are a number of causes of cirrhosis including: too much fat in the liver (a.K.A. Nash), viruses that were not necessarily contracted by using drugs (hepatitis b/c, others), metabolic diseases (hemochromatosis, wilson's disease, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, etc), autoimmune processes (autoimmune hepatitis, pbc, psc) and medications.

Answered 1/23/2015

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Many reasons: Infections (hepatitis b or c), fatty liver disease (fat infiltration in the liever), autoimmunity.

Answered 9/5/2020

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