Chronic liver disease: Difference between revisions
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==Diagnosis== | ==Diagnosis== |
Revision as of 19:19, 26 July 2012
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Chronic liver disease is a liver disease of slow process and persisting over a long period of time, resulting in a progressive destruction of the liver.
Causes
It can refer to:
- Cirrhosis
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis B
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Liver failure
- Portal hypertension
- Hemochromatosis
- Wilson's disease
- Gaucher disease
- Liver cancer
- Hepatoma
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Zellweger syndrome
Risk Factors
- Health care professionals who are exposed to body fluids and infected blood
- Individuals who get multiple tattoos and body piercing
- Certain prescription medications
- Excessive alcohol use
- Having high levels of fat in the blood
- Sharing infected needle and syringes
- Having unprotected sex and multiple sex partners
- Working with toxic chemicals without wearing safety clothes
Natural History, Complications, Prognosis
Complications
- Portal Hypertension
- Hypoalbuminaemia
- Coagulopathy
- Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
- Hepatorenal Syndrome
- Encephalopathy
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma (also called hepatoma)