Cirrhosis

Discussion: Cirrhosis is an immuno-compromised state which predisposes the patient to a variety of infections.8 Despite the advancement in medical care for patients with advanced liver disease in the past decades, bacterial infections remain very common and account for significant morbidity and mortality in those patients.9 Clostridium difficile is an increasingly prevalent hospital-acquired infection that affects patients with cirrhosis. A study of over 80,000 patients with cirrhosis found…

was alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. While speaking with my nurse, she mentioned that she was an alcoholic. By being an alcoholic, alcoholism damaged the liver and formed the cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is, “a chronic disease of the liver characterized by scarring with loss of normal hepatic architecture and areas of ineffective regeneration” (Skyscape, 2015); with alcohol being its main contributor. Supporting labs of cirrhosis would be ALT 37, AST 43, and Bilirubin 43. Though cirrhosis was the main…

Life is full of ups and downs. We go through a lot of situations and events some of these situation might determine our future, shape our personality and even changes the way our mind views as well as think about a lot of things. I remember once back at home when I was still is school one of our teachers was absent and as a result we where asked to leave and was told to meet in another classroom since the teacher wasn’t there all of the girls spent that time talking. When I first entered that…

problems. Yet, this is a fatal illness and a daily challenge. This was not a recent illness, it was one he had battled for most of his life. At the age of 54 he started vomiting blood and passing out. At this time he thought he had cirrhosis; this is a self-diagnosis. Cirrhosis is a condition when the liver slowly deteriorates. The reason he thought he had this was he watched and help my grandma Jenny. She had this disease. So, he…

During my Junior year of high school, I was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hepatitis with liver cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is the development of scar tissue left on the liver when the liver becomes scarred. During my hospital stay, a four night stay which included a biopsy, colonoscopy, and multiple ultrasounds, I was told by my doctors that I would never be able to play contact sports ever again due to the amount of scarring developed on my liver. If I were to get hit in just the right spot, my liver…

The primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a condition that affects the liver and destroys the bile duct in the liver. Bile is a fluid that plays an important role of digesting foods and help to get rid of the toxins in the body (MayoClinic, 2014). Sodium concentration requires to be tested in order to identify any abnormal concentration of sodium. In the case study, the patient’s sodium level was 121 mmol/L but her TC value was 322 milligrams per deciliter (Farooqi & Hashim. 2015). The normal range…

learned that she frequently comes across patients with liver cirrhosis. My cousin is a registered nurse at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. She works on floor six, South Medsurg Renal, which means the floor she works on specializes in renal, but she said not all of her patients have kidney issues. Their floor deals with a wide variety of complications and she provided me with several complications that are relatively common: peritonitis, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, and…

Foundation, cirrhosis “is the scarring of the liver with hard scar tissue replacing soft healthy tissue” (American Liver Foundation, 2015). Cirrhosis can be caused by multiple conditions including alcoholism, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Hepatitis C and genetic diseases such as Wilson’s Disease (ALF, 2015). In a study released by the Chronic Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF), “ patients with cirrhosis from alcoholism have more brain deterioration with HE compared to non-alcoholic cirrhosis…

called cirrhosis. Cirrhosis patients’ shows sign of anemia, susceptibility to infection, blood clotting impairment, fat malabsorption, jaundice, ascites and varices. Some complication of cirrhosis that it can lead to portal hypertension as the scar tissues of liver impedes blood flow. Because of the scar tissues the pressure in the portal vein rises and also blood is diverted to collaterals which cause collaterals to enlarge and form varices which may rupture. Another complication of cirrhosis…

The degenerative disease that I have chosen is Cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is scarring of the liver. It happens when someone has had an injury or disease for a long time that scar tissue starts to form. Is not always known what may be causing it, but there are some things that can cause it. It can be alcoholism, obesity or viruses. According to the Department of Health and Human services, cirrhosis/ chronic liver disease was one of the leading cause of death for American Indians. American Indians and…