What is the cause of hepatomegaly?

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Hepatomegaly is an important sign of many liver diseases in clinic. There are many reasons for hepatomegaly, including hepatitis B, liver cirrhosis, fatty liver, liver cancer, alcoholic liver and many other liver diseases. In addition, infection is also an important cause of hepatomegaly, including viral infection, bacterial infection, mycoplasma infection, spirochete infection and fungal infection. There are also liver cirrhosis, bile duct stones and other diseases may also lead to hepatomegaly. Hepatomegaly is a common and harmful disease, which should be actively prevented in clinic. Doctors should combine the patient's medical history, the specific location of the liver and other examination results to determine pathological hepatomegaly. What is the cause of hepatomegaly? Let's talk about it.

What is the cause of hepatomegaly?

Clinically, in order to diagnose the greater cause, the following examinations are usually done. The first is blood test. If it is due to infection with bacteria, white blood cells will increase. If it is viral infection or hypersplenism, white blood cells will decrease. Eggs or trophozoites can be found in feces. Duodenal drainage can find pathogenic bacteria, liver function test, ultrasound and X-ray examination.

How to diagnose hepatomegaly, the diagnosis of hepatomegaly needs to be combined with the patient's history, to pay attention to whether the patient has a history of infectious disease contact, or whether there is a history of hepatitis and other diseases, drugs or poisons contact, which can cause toxic hepatomegaly, and then the clinical manifestations of the patient, as well as the laboratory and other auxiliary examinations, to make a comprehensive diagnosis.

Clinically, hepatomegaly needs to be differentiated from each other. Viral hepatitis leads to hepatomegaly, which is often associated with close contact with patients with viral hepatitis, unclean diet or blood transfusion. Patients usually have no energy, do not like eating, nausea, abdominal distension and liver pain. In addition, it should be differentiated from toxic hepatitis and liver abscess.

matters needing attention

The patient's physical decline, frequent drinking or depression, and always eating fat, sweet and delicious are easy to cause liver disease. Therefore, we should pay attention to light diet, develop good eating habits, and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables rich in nutrients, because vegetables are not only rich in vitamins, but also a lot of cellulose and inorganic salts, This is helpful for liver recovery.