Symptoms and complications of liver cancer

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What kinds of complications can advanced liver cancer appear commonly? In recent years, there are many deaths due to liver cancer. The disease is not only a high mortality rate, but also a sharp increase in incidence rate. This situation has caused people to pay close attention to liver cancer. Experts pointed out that early liver cancer is the stage with the greatest hope for cure, while advanced liver cancer is not only the stage with relatively high mortality, but also the stage with the most prone to complications. Therefore, we need to treat it as soon as possible. Let's talk about the symptoms and complications of liver cancer.

Symptoms and complications of liver cancer

(1) Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: often because of portal hypertension caused by esophageal and gastric fundus vein rupture bleeding, or because of upper gastrointestinal ulcer bleeding, mild performance for black stool, severe can vomit a lot of blood, due to the amount of bleeding and shock, mortality is relatively high, so in the treatment of advanced liver cancer is to avoid causing gastrointestinal bleeding.

(2) Hepatic coma: it occurs at the end stage of liver cancer. Mild symptoms include abnormal behavior, such as sleep reversal (sleeping during the day, irritability at night), and urination at will. Further development can lead to irritability, and finally patients with liver cancer will appear coma. Hepatic coma is often induced by massive hemorrhage of upper digestive tract. It can also be induced by eating a lot of high protein food. It can also occur without obvious inducement.

(3) Rupture and bleeding of liver cancer: treatment or self necrosis and softening, under the action of external force, such as severe cough, excessive compression, vomiting, etc., the abdominal pressure suddenly increases, causing rupture and bleeding of liver cancer tissue, or spontaneous rupture and bleeding. The amount of bleeding directly affects the clinical manifestations and prognosis. If the small liver cancer nodules on the surface of the liver rupture, less bleeding, local pain or severe pain, ascites when the formation of bloody ascites. What kinds of complications can advanced liver cancer appear commonly? Subcapsular hemorrhage will form subcapsular hematoma, liver enlargement and tenderness. Physical examination will find signs of short-term enlargement. If further enlargement will cause rupture of liver capsule, hematoma rupture will enter abdominal cavity and form bloody peritonitis, abdominal swelling, liver shrinkage, severe pain and other symptoms and signs will appear. If the amount of bleeding is large, it can be accompanied by blood pressure drop, pulse speed, cold sweat and palpitation and other shock manifestations. If it can not be treated in time or ineffective treatment, death will occur.

matters needing attention

In the treatment of advanced liver cancer, we should not only actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment plan, but also do a good job in the prevention of complications, so as to avoid accidents in the treatment of liver cancer.