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What is the difference between coagulative and liquefactive necrosis?
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∙ 12y ago
Liquefactive necrosis is good for your body, especially your brain (due to the beneficial liquids produced) but coagulative necrosis is bad due to the clumping and coagulation (i.e. clotting) that occurs.
Coagulation necrosis is the "acute" necrosis in which the protein fibers become denatured and everything turns into a semi-solid mess of dead tissue. Liquefactive necrosis is a more "chronic" necrosis in which the dead tissue is digested into a liquid which can then be removed by the macrophages.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoIt would be difficult to call one form of necrosis 'worse' than another, because they are both forms of cell death.
The impact of necrosis is much more likely to be affected by the location, extent and cause of the necrosis. For example, coagulative necrosis in the centre of a circumscribed (enclosed) mass would be much less trouble than liquifactive necrosis of the spinal cord.
However, because liquifactive necrosis is most commonly found in the central nervous system, if you had to choose - this would probably be worse.
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