The liver is the part of your body which is your life saving device. The liver grows before you are born. If this answers your question, I'm glad I helped.
The liver enlarges during the early stages of illness
Cirrhosis and nodular cirrhosis can cause a small liver. Cirrhosis can be caused by alcohol abuse, hepatitis B and C, fatty liver disease, or something else.
Traffic fatalities.
It is liver cirrhosis because it can cause scarring of the liver.
Cirrhosis
Chronic liver infections, such as hepatitis B and particularly hepatitis C, are commonly linked to cirrhosis.
Yes. Obesity can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which will enlarge the liver and which my develop to cirrhosis.
Cirrhosis is not a disease in itself, it is a stage of liver failure (the final stage, in fact). Whether it is "communicable" or not depends on whether the cause of the cirrhosis is communicable.
Cirrhosis of the liver.
Prolonged abusive consumption of alcohol has been know to cause cirrhosis of the liver as well as an array of other diseases.
Once a liver has developed cirrhosis, there is no way to reverse the damage. The only "cure" for cirrhosis is liver transplant.
Many doctors deal with patients who have cirrhosis, mainly depending on what the cause of the cirrhosis was. But there is a specialty who deals with the liver, a hepatologist.
No. Cirrhosis is a degeneration of cells, leading to impaired liver function and liver damage. Where as a liver abscess is an accumulation of pus.