How can a person have cirrhosis of the liver if he is not a drinker or drug user?
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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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Dr. Thomas Frazier
Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology
In brief: 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.
In brief: 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.
Dr. Thomas Frazier
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Dr. Vijay Laxmi Misra
Internal Medicine
In brief: 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.
In brief: 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.
Dr. Vijay Laxmi Misra
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