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What is the degenerative disease that frequently results in jaundice and ultimately liver failure?
The degenerative disease that frequently results in jaundice and ultimately liver failure is cirrhosis. This condition is characterized by the replacement of healthy liver tissue with scar tissue, leading to a loss of liver function and potential liver failure. Jaundice, or yellowing of the skin and eyes, is a common symptom of liver dysfunction in cirrhosis.
The degenerative disease that frequently results in jaundice and ultimately liver failure is?
Cirrhosis
What is the degenerative disease that frequently results and jaundice and ultimately liver failure?
Cirrhosis
Is Cirrhosis of liver reversible or not?
It is not reversible. Cirrhosis is the final stage of liver failure, in which the hepatocytes (liver cells) have reached a stage of scarring which renders them unable to regenerate healthy, new cells. The treatment for cirrhosis, aside from drugs to relieve symptoms, is a transplant.
Is cirrhosis communicable?
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.
Stop drinking will cirrhosis go away?
Cirrhosis is the final stage of liver failure, in which the liver has been scarred to the extent that it's capacity to regenerate has diminished/vanished. It is not reversible.
What type of cirrhosis is also known as portal cirrhosis?
There is nothing as portal cirrhosis. There is a condition called as portal hypertension. In cirrhosis of liver you have signs of portal hypertension as well as of liver failure present in a given patient.
Liver cirrhosis with hepatic encephalopathy nursing care plan?
he is diagnosed as fulminant hepatic failure
Is there cure for cirrhosis?
You do not die from cirrhosis of the liver. However, cirrhosis of the liver makes the liver susceptible to cancer. You die from cancer. The worse the cirrhosis, the greater the chance of cancer. If the cirrhosis is alcohol related, if you stop drinking immediately, it is possible to reverse it. Your liver can produce chemicals that dissolve the cirrhosis. Alcohol destroys those chemicals. Your liver constantly produces chemicals that make it heal itself. Alcohol destroys those chemicals.
What does excessive ingestion of ethanol over a long period causes?
That causes the cirrhosis of the liver. You get the signs of liver failure and portal hypertension at the same time.
Treatment for liver failure?
Research suggests that sulphasalazine may reverse the scarring of liver cirrhosis.
What is sirrosis of the liver?
Liver cirrhosis is progressive scarring of the hepatocytes (liver cells), leading to loss of liver function. Cirrhosis is not a disease in itself- it is the term used for when a liver has become scarred beyond repair, due to any cause (whether viral, auto-immune, alcohol etc...). I.e it is the stage before "complete liver failure".
