Liver

Yellowish skin color (jaundice), yellowish color in evacuation of urine or feces, liver that is hardened to the touch, and failure to process bile. In addition, the patient expieriences loss of appetite, energy and weight, itching, nausea, sharp pain in abdomen; although the liver is on he right side, the pain can be either right or left. Another symptom is pale or black tar-like stools), high temperature, joint pain and exreme fatique.

A team of physicians at Emory University during the past two decades has developed a shunt, or a sort of tunnel, leading from the brain to the liver. This is for the purpose of treatment of cirrhosis of the liver. In addition to liver transplants, the shunt has proven very effective in controlling the progress of chirrhosis. However, the patient is not allowed to imbibe any alcohol whatsoever.

Yes, as long as there is no kidney damage, that is one of the complications from diabetes but kidney damage doesn't effect everyone.

5-fluorouracil,

gentamicin,

cisplatin,

acetaminophen,

para-aminophenol,

potassium dichromate,

ibuprofen,

doxorubicin,

cyclosporine,

citrinin,

puromycin

Acyclovir

Aminoglycosides

Cisplatin

Mercury Chloride

Potassium Bromate

Cadmium chloride

Amphotericin B

Lithium

Calcineurin Inhibitors

amongst others

I believe the following apply: liver transplant 996.8 status post liver transplant V42.7

Liver transplant actually 996.82

Please go to your Doctor your doctor will arrange a blood test to check liver function, I have this test done once a month to check for liver damage caused by my medication for rheumatoid arthritus the test is quite painless best wishes
Signs of liver disease that are more prominent are jaundice or yellowing of the eyes and skin. Any amount of alcohol can produce damage to the liver.

Drinking alcohol abusively over a period of decades has been implicated statistically with the development of liver cancer.

Interestingly, cancer is much more likely to develop after an alcohol abuser stops drinking. That's because it is during the period that the liver is rapidly regenerating that abnormal cells are more likely to develop.

The average human adult liver weighs about three pounds. It is a vital organ and no person can live without one.

The liver is the only organ in the human body that can regenerate. It is possible to live with part of your liver because it will regenerate itself. Many times only part of a liver is transplanted during a transplant.

A homogeneous liver is one that has the same texture throughout.

The liver turns the food you eat into energy! It produces a substance called bile,which helps you digest fats called lipids. Fat doesnt dissolve in water, so your liver is very important in breaking up lipids so they can be easily absorbed in your intestine. Your liver also decides whether incoming food is worth digesting or if its waste. This organ stores lots of important vitamins and sugars, and your liver also separates the harmful stuff in your blood. Its no wonder that the liver is the largest organ in the human body, but it can always use a little help. You can work your liver by eating healthy food and getting plenty of exercise!

Morphine is a prescription medication that is given for moderate to severe pain. Since it is not metabolized in the liver, morphine cannot cause liver damage.

There are a number of reasons for spots on the liver. Some causes of liver legions could be from Hemangioma (a benign tumor composed of abnormal blood vessels that form during development in the womb), Liver Adenoma (another benign tumor from from the abnormal growth of liver cells), Granuloma (inflammatory tissue possibly caused from an infection) or other non-life threatening causes. The most dangerous cause could be liver cancer or metastatic liver.

Nonspecific destruction of the liver can be called Hepatic Necrosis, death of the tissue of the liver. Disease of the liver is hepatopathy.

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Body aches are a side effect of the immune system response to an invading pathogen or germ. When your immune system detects the presence of these foreign objects, it uses certain proteins and chemicals (called cytokines) to communicate with the rest of the body. Some of these cytokines (like interleukins) can cause such things as fever and body aches, because they trigger these specific reactions.

The liver is like the body's manufacturing center and it takes the blood nutrients and a host of other substances and uses what it can and sends the rest of the stuff through the spleen. When your body needs an enzyme or other kind of component the liver makes and ships it out. Certain conditions such as infections like Hepatitis cause the liver to become inflamed and to work extra hard. Doctors look at the liver enzymes as a way to see how hard the liver is working and its a good marker for over work it these are high. All this combined is to say that the liver contains a lot of thin walled areas called sinuses that contain the stuff manufactured along with blood and proteiins. These things are mixed and forwarded on through the bodies circulatory system. The spleen weeds out certain types of bacteria and old blood cells, etc. If the liver is over worked the enzymes increase to a point that it cannot work any harder and things start to break down. The cells die. The little passages scar down and then well it eventually stops working. The thing that is most remarkable is that it takes quite a bit of a beating. First it swells and slows down, then it scars down even more to the point that this little shriveled up, calloused organ that used to filter and manufacture the contents of the blood and bodies fluids no longer works. The condition where the liver is enlarged is called hepatomegaly, and the condition where it shrivels up is called cirrhosis. Most cirrhotic people will have little livers and at times big bellies because the fluids are not being filtered and leak out or might even cause a back pressure in such places as the hemorrhoids or across the abdomen. Most of the time we see cirrhosis happen in people who have either ingested toxic substances, or toxic quantities of substances such as alcohol or even Tylenol, otherwise called acetominophen. I've been taught that about ten of the extra strength Tylenol will pickle your liver, i.e., cause liver failure. So there are lots of combinations of things that will shut down the liver, and they can be categorized into chemicals and diseases for short. In addition to the above there is another condition known as congestive heart failure in which a fluid backs up because the heart is weakened. This combination of things will often give a sign like swollen ankles, but beware. All swollen ankles are not an indication of heart failure, but it is a reason to look a little closer at the situation. You could continue on and on and talk about how cancerous growth impede the liver's function or other rare conditions in metabolism that cause problems. Even parasites can do it. So I hope that helps.

Yes. Most of the drugs are metabolized by Liver. Drugs given by mouth are are absorbed in gastrointestinal system. They all pass through portal venous system to Liver. Nature has made this arrangement for 'digested food' so it can be processed at Liver. So many drugs are destroyed here only to more or less degree and rest pass in circulation. This is called as first pass metabolism. You do not have to worry about that and by just increasing the dose you can tackle this problem. After this 'First pass metabolism' drug is distributed in body for it's pharmacological action. It continue to recirculate in body as almost 30 % of body supply goes to Liver and drug gets metabolized in Liver. Liver either oxidize or reduce or hydrolyze it in attempt to 'deactivate' the drug and kidney may excrete it. But sometimes these products of metabolism are as more or less Pharmacologically active and then Liver will make it inactive by adding glucuronic acid or acetyl-ate it or adding glutathione to it, methylate it or sulfate is added. Then drug becomes invariably inactive and excreted by kidney.

Milk Thistle is the first to come to mind.

And here are a few more... gentian, golden seal, meadowsweet, milk thistle, Oregon grape root, rosemary, vervain and yellow dock. A good liver support is made of 2 parts dandelion root, 2 parts meadowsweet, 1 part fringe tree bark and 1 part golden seal. Taken as an infusion it should be drunk after each meal.

used in combination with a careful history, physical examination , and imaging studies, they contribute to making an accurate diagnosis

Well, if the test is for Creatine, yes.

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Most drug tests check for creatinine level as a safeguard against diluted urinalyses. All machine tests do. Obviously you're looking for a low or nonexistent level of it to flunk the guy with, but let's say we find a REALLY high creatinine level. For preemployment screening they usually don't bother with a medical review officer, but all DOT and most other government employee tests are read by a medical review officer--a doctor trained to interpret urine tests. The doctor knows most of the people who take creatine are bodybuilders. If you walk in to your MRO session and the doctor sees you're a bodybuilder, you'll pass.

A liver filled with homogeneous parenchymal echos is one that shows no signs of disease or cirrhosis of the liver. If the liver was filled with inhomogeneous parenchymal echoes, that would show signs of disease or cirrhosis of the liver.
This can indicate a number of liver disease types, such as cirrhosis, metastatic disease, fatty liver, chronic hepatitis, and lymph proliferative disease. Further investigation is needed for a definitive diagnosis.

Transplanted, yes. Replaced artificially, no.

The unique functions of the liver require that the human body has one that is functioning. This is why livers, or parts of livers, are transplanted in cases of hepatic failure or damage.