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What is one liver disease?
Cirrhosis
What is a disease in which liver cells are damaged?
Liver cirrhosis is one such disease.
How do you know how bad cirrhosis of liver is?
Cirrhosis is the final stage of liver disease (before death). There is only one level of cirrhosis, which is "bad", since cirrhosis is progressive and non-reverisble. The stage before cirrhosis is called "fibrosis", which you could classify is "not as bad".
State one effect of long time consumption of large quantities alcohol?
Cirrhosis of the liver, wet-brain, dependence.
How do you get cirrhosis of the liver is acquired?
Heavy drinking of alcohol is one sure way.
What are the Surgical procedures in liver transplantation in liver cirrhosis?
If Cirrhosis of the liver is present in the patient who is receiving the organ, then their Liver is removed and the new one is put into place. Depending on the reasons why the patient had Cirrhosis in the first place depends if it will return in the future. The procedure can take anywhere from 5 hours to 12+ hours, depending on the method the surgeon uses.
Is 'organ specific hazard' a health hazard?
No. The phrase "organ specific hazard" describes what a chemical does to a specific organ of the body. Thus ethanol consumed in large amounts over a long time is known to cause cirrhosis of the liver, so one organ specific hazard of ethanol is liver cirrhosis.
Is a person with reoccuring hepatitis A virus more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver?
Compared to the control of "a person with no liver issues whatsover" , the person with Hep A would be slightly more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver. However, since they are aware that they have a liver issue, the liver function and general health of the person are probably being very closely monitored. Hence if their liver function ever does present a significant problem, it will be caught early and given appropriate treatment. (They would be at a far greater risk if they were unaware they had Hep A.)
What is the primary organ that oxidizes alcohol?
The liver. And alcohol abuse is one of the major causes of cirrhosis.
What disease infect the Liver?
Hepatitis is probably the one most people know of. After that the other is cirrhosis.
Treatment for liver failure?
Research suggests that sulphasalazine may reverse the scarring of liver cirrhosis.
What is the progressive disease where a person is addicted to alcohol?
Cirrhosis of the liver is one progressive disease that occurs in alcoholics.
