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What is the life prognosis of someone with non alcoholic Cirrhosis of the liver?
The life prognosis of someone with non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver varies depending on the severity of the condition and whether they receive appropriate treatment. In general, early detection and management can help improve outcomes and extend life expectancy. However, advanced cirrhosis can lead to complications that may impact life expectancy. Regular monitoring and lifestyle changes can aid in managing the condition and improving outcomes.
What will happen to someone if they chose to be an alcoholic forever?
If someone chooses to be an alcoholic forever, they'll die of liver cancer.Not necessarily cancer but definitely liver disease such as liver cirrhosis. Long-term over use of alcohol can also cause pancreatitis.
What is more serious fatty liver or cirrhosis of the liver?
Fatty liver is usually benign, but carries a 10 to 20% risk of developing cirrhosis. Cirrhosis itself can be due to many reasons, and carries a much worse prognosis.
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What is non alcoholic cirosis of the liver?
Non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, often referred to as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is a condition characterized by the accumulation of fat in the liver of individuals who consume little to no alcohol. This condition can progress to inflammation, fibrosis, and eventually cirrhosis, which is the scarring of the liver tissue. Risk factors include obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. It can lead to liver dysfunction and increased risk of liver-related complications if not managed appropriately.
What is the name given when alcohol damages the liver cells?
The name given when alcohol damages the liver cells is alcoholic hepatitis.
How does obesity cause liver disease?
Yes. Obesity can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which will enlarge the liver and which my develop to cirrhosis.
Can alcohol use be detected after a month?
Probably not, unless you are an alcoholic or have developed cirrhosis (a serious condition of the liver.)
Whether there is possibility of carcinoma from parenchymal liver disease?
Risk is increased if there is cirrhosis, for example alcoholic or viral hepatitis related.
What blood tests are performed to confirm cirrhosis of the liver?
Blood tests alone cannot "confirm" cirrhosis of the liver - final confirmation must be done by a liver biopsy. However the usual blood "indicators" of liver cirrhosis which are useful to know about (and usually all combined in a package known as "liver function blood tests") are an elevated AST and ALT (liver enzymes, which leak from hepatocytes when the cells are damaged), high bilirubin (directly correlates to how itchy you are) and high GGT, a marker for alcoholic cirrhosis.
What causes cirrhosis?
The most common and well known causes of cirrhosis are alcoholic liver disease (which is caused by people drinking heavily for a prolonged period, usually at least a decade) and Hepatitis, both B and C. Other causes are diseases that affect the liver, such as Wilson's Disease. Cirrhosis is essentially scarring of the liver, so all of it's causes are things that affect the liver.
3 different diseases caused by alcohol use?
Liver cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis and pancreatitis. All can eventually lead to cancers.
