Introduction to the harm of liver cirrhosis
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Long term drinking is easy to cause liver injury, leading to the emergence of cirrhosis, the disease is great harm to patients, if not timely diagnosis and treatment, it may develop into liver cancer, treatment difficulty is greatly increased, endangering life and health. Therefore, for liver cirrhosis, patients should be treated with caution, once found, positive diagnosis and treatment. A lot of people have what harm to liver cirrhosis is not clear, the following is a detailed introduction.
Introduction to the harm of liver cirrhosis
1: Diffuse degeneration and necrosis of hepatocytes, followed by fibrous tissue hyperplasia and nodular regeneration of hepatocytes, these three changes repeatedly staggered, resulting in the gradual reconstruction of hepatic lobular structure and blood circulation pathway, resulting in liver deformation and hardening, leading to cirrhosis. In the early stage of the disease, there may be no obvious symptoms. In the later stage, there are a series of portal hypertension and liver dysfunction to varying degrees, until the occurrence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy and other complications.
2: After cirrhosis develops to a certain extent, it will enter the stage of decompensation of liver function, and patients will have various signs, such as loss of appetite, emaciation, abdominal pain, diarrhea, gingival bleeding, epistaxis, fever, jaundice, splenomegaly, abdominal varices, ascites and so on.
3: Due to liver cirrhosis, hepatic portal hypertension leads to upper gastrointestinal bleeding, esophageal and gastric varices. When stimulated by coarse food, chemical substances or high intra-abdominal pressure, the varicose blood vessels are easy to rupture, resulting in massive bleeding.
matters needing attention
Life must not ignore liver cirrhosis disease, actively do a good job in prevention, do not drink a lot, maintain a balanced nutrition, active exercise, enhance their disease resistance.