Cirrhosis

Alcohol-related liver disease or ARLD is a common health issue in the United States that can lead to further complications or premature death. The contraction of this disease is influenced or caused by genetics, the environment, or even social acceptability of alcohol use. Nutrition plays a vast role in the factors of ARLD because the liver is the focal site for alcohol metabolism. This can cause complications in the metabolism of other essential nutrients in the liver. A lot of alcoholics…

liver, such as cirrhosis, cancer, or the liver fails, the last resort is a liver transplant. A patient will be put under anesthesia, and a surgeon will remove the damaged liver and replace it with a healthy liver from a (normally deceased) donor. According to an analysis of 379 patients; “the estimated 5-year survival rates were 97% for patients with chronic persistent hepatitis, 86% for those with chronic active hepatitis, and 55% for those with chronic active hepatitis with cirrhosis. The…

(Hepatitis). The blood test will show the presence of the virus or of antibodies and antigens that have built up because of the virus. In some cases, a liver biopsy may be done to determine whether there is hepatitis related damage to the liver, including cirrhosis and liver cancer. Other ways to diagnose is to use imaging test such as a CT scan, MRI, and ultrasound to help assess the damage (Jenkins). A viral antibody testing may be needed to determine a specific type of hepatitis…

problems to the liver such as inflammation, steatosis, alcoholic hepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. Steatosis is when the liver is infiltrated with fat because of the change in metabolism caused by the alcohol in the system. Alcoholic hepatitis is when the liver is inflamed because of excessive amounts of the alcohol over a short period of time. Fibrosis is the formation of large amount of scar tissue. Cirrhosis is liver damage that can lead to scarring and liver failure. The function of the…

patient’s history of alcohol abuse directly relates to the development of this patient’s end stage liver complications. The patient’s alcoholic cirrhosis denotes that the patient has developed this irreversible disease over the span of years that have gone undetected and untreated, that begun with alcoholic hepatitis and progressed all the way to alcoholic cirrhosis, due to the overconsumption of alcohol and his socioeconomic status (homeless). Alcoholic hepatitis is characterized by…

HSC BIOLOGY: THE SEARCH FOR BETTER HEALTH RESEARCH ASSESSMENT - HEPATITIS B OVERVIEW OF HEPATITIS DISEASES Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver (In Latin, hepatitis means “of the liver”) caused either by a toxic substance (viral infection from direct damage e.g. alcohol) or bacterial and viral infection. Hepatitis is a family of viral infections that damage the liver; most common types are Hepatitis A, B and C. About 500 million people globally are infected by one of six hepatitis…

Your liver is the largest organ inside your body. It helps your body digest food, store energy, and remove poisons. Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. The progress to fibrosis (scanning), cirrhosis or liver cancer. Hepatitis viruses are the most common cause of hepatitis in the world but out infection, toxic substances (alcohol, certain drugs) and auto immune diseases can also cause hepatitis. There are 5 main hepatitis viruses, referred to as type A, B, C, D, and E. These 5 are of…

to do its job, which is to detoxify the blood. The liver’s job is to break down naturally produce toxic chemicals, prescription and OTC medications, street drugs, alcohol, and caffeinated products. This can lead to other chronic diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Being that…

“six major genotypes and more than 70 subtypes” (3). Hepatitis C virus infection usually are undetected due to none significant symptoms during initial stage. Therefore, frequent infection is prevalence and it is most likely to be developed to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Utilizing case-control study method of two patient groups of HCV infection who develop HCC as a major result of HCV and who do not develop HCC. The progression of HCV in two groups will be studied from laboratory…

compared to a low fat diet. The use of drinking coffee decreases the risk of having a fatty liver (15). Controlling cholesterol levels and diabetes is also important to treatment of NAFLD (15). Summary of Cirrhosis Cause Article (16) The buildup of scar tissue overtime on the liver is called cirrhosis (16). When the liver is…