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How does autoimmune hepatitis differ from the other types of hepatitis?
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∙ 11y ago
Hepatitis is a condition where liver cells get swollen, injured (technically inflamed) and damaged.
It could be happen due to many different causes
Viral Infections
Autoimmune
Alcohol
Medicines
Our defense system to fight against infections is called the immune system. It is programmed to destroy any foreign elements in the body...which logically most commonly are bacteria viruses etc
The Autoimmune Hepatitis is caused by a condition where the immune system wrongly identifies our own liver cells as intruders and starts attacking them...why this happens is not clearly understood...again as one might expect treating this kind of hepatitis means switching off the immune system...which essentially means allowing any infections to attack us freely.
Physicians try to strike a fine balance not switching off the immune system totally while reducing its efficacy...(using immunosupressant drugs)
Liver is the handler/cleaner/filter of all that enters our body...it is made for that but cannot handle Alcohol and some medicines even...viral infections also cause Hepatitis
Hepatitis due to infection might be treated using Antiviral medicines along medical support. Hepatitis due to Alcohol and drugs might possibly be treated by stopping the offending agent along medical support.
Unfortunately there is no successful treatment for Autoimmune Hepatitis which usually progresses though its pace might be slowed.
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Is hepatitis a viruse or a bacteria?
Hepatitis is actually quite a general term which means inflammation of the liver and so has many causes for example drug-induced, alcoholic, autoimmune or infectious. On the whole when most people refer to hepatitis they refer to infectious hepatitis often caused by the hepatitis viruses types B & C which have the potential to cause long term (chronic) hepatitis. There are other forms of the hepatitis virus family including types A, D & E and there are other forms of virus which can cause hepatitis. There are non-viral infectious causes of hepatitis including toxoplasma and Q fever (which is a bacteria) but these are rare.
What are the two immunodeficiency diseases?
The 2 main types of immune system disorders are Allergies and Asthma. Other types of disorders are autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid Arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.
How do they differ from compound microscope the other types?
types of microscope
Is hepatitis incommunicable?
Certain types of hepatitis are communicable, these are the viral strains. There are several non-communicable types of hepatitis related to alcohol abuse.
What Is Hepatitis And Types Of Viral Hepatitis?
Hepatitis is a medical condition characterized by the inflammation of the liver. Major causes are viral infections with hepatovirus A, B, C, D, and E and other factors such as excessive alcohol consumption, autoimmune disorders, certain medications or toxins. Infected patients suffer from impaired liver function accompanied by a range of other symptoms like fatigue, jaundice, abdominal pain and loss of appetite. Each type of viral hepatitis (hepatitis A-E) is caused by one of the respective hepatoviruses which result in a set of unique diseases witch each hepatic disease being characterized slightly different in term of modes of transmission, potential for chronicity, severity of liver damage, and available preventive measures and treatments. Find out more about hepatitis on our website, where we provide hepatitis samples and more information on hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. centralbiohub.de/biospecimens/infectious-diseases/hepatitis
How do experiments differ from other types of research?
depending on what the data is for
Can an autoimmune disease cause amemia?
Yes, there are several autoimmune disease processes which may result in different types of anemia.
What causes postnecrotic cirrhosis?
1. Alcohol is a very common cause of cirrhosis2. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) refers to a wide spectrum of liver diseases that, like alcoholic liver disease, ranges from simple steatosis, to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), to cirrhosis. All stages of NAFLD have in common the accumulation of fat in liver cells. The term nonalcoholic is used because NAFLD occurs in individuals who do not consume excessive amounts of alcohol, yet.3. Chronic viral hepatitis is a condition where hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus infects the liver for years. Most patients with viral hepatitis will not develop chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis.4. Autoimmune hepatitis is a liver disease caused by an abnormality of the immune system that is found more commonly in women. The abnormal immune activity in autoimmune hepatitis causes progressive inflammation and destruction of liver cells (hepatocytes), leading ultimately to cirrhosis.5. Infants can be born without bile ducts (biliary atresia) and ultimately develop cirrhosis. Other infants are born lacking vital enzymes for controlling sugars that leads to the accumulation of sugars and cirrhosis.
How does class system differ from other types of stratification?
More complex
Is there a vaccine for Hepatitis?
Yes, but only for two types of viral hepatitis, hepatitis A and hepatitis B. There are no vaccines yet to prevent hepatitis C, D, or E. See the related question below for more information.
How does gamma emission differ from all the other types of decay?
Yes, it is true.
Electromagnetic waves differ from other types of waves because they are?
..not reliant on any medium.
