What's the meaning of 20 years of decompensation?

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Cirrhosis is caused by one or more causes of long-term, repeated stimulation, resulting in diffuse liver damage. It is characterized by chronic diffuse connective tissue hyperplasia, degeneration and necrosis of hepatocytes, regeneration, structural damage of hepatic lobules and formation of pseudolobules. Early liver function can be compensated, cirrhosis, to a certain extent, will exceed the compensatory capacity of liver function, it becomes decompensated cirrhosis. The main clinical manifestations are symptoms and signs caused by liver dysfunction and portal hypertension. The obstruction of hepatic venous return caused by various reasons can make the liver congestion and hypoxia for a long time, which can lead to congestion cirrhosis and schistosomiasis liver fibrosis. What's the meaning of 20 years of decompensation? Now let's talk about it.

What's the meaning of 20 years of decompensation?

In decompensated stage of liver cirrhosis, there are two kinds of clinical manifestations: liver cell dysfunction and portal hypertension. The first type of liver cell dysfunction, its clinical manifestations are fatigue, weight loss, dark complexion, spider nevus, liver, edema of both lower limbs and anorexia, abdominal distension, poor tolerance to fat and protein diet, easy to cause diarrhea, late can cause toxic enteroparalysis.

Portal hypertension is characterized by erythrocytopenia, thrombocytopenia and splenomegaly, hypersplenism, collateral circulation, abdominal varicose veins, esophageal varices and gastric varices, which can lead to gastrointestinal bleeding and ascites. Gastrointestinal bleeding and ascites are the most prominent manifestations of decompensated cirrhosis.

There are many complications in decompensated stage of liver cirrhosis, which can lead to serious consequences. For some complications such as esophageal varices, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, concurrent infection, we should choose effective treatment methods for liver cirrhosis according to the specific situation of patients.

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Patients with liver cirrhosis should have a reasonable diet and nutrition, which is conducive to the recovery of liver cell function and stability of the disease. Given a high protein diet, can reduce the body's protein decomposition, promote liver protein synthesis, enough calories, high vitamin and trace element rich diet, can meet the needs of the body, but also can enhance the body's resistance.