Causes of hepatitis C splenomegaly

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After suffering from hepatitis C, the body will also have some other complications, that is, hepatitis C patients, and splenomegaly, after the examination, we do not know how to treat better, the doctor said symptomatic treatment will be effective, tell you what is the cause of hepatitis C splenomegaly in the end!

Causes of hepatitis C splenomegaly

Reason 1: the treatment of hepatitis C splenomegaly, hypersplenism first need to remove the cause. There are many reasons for this disease, if chronic hepatitis B, chronic hepatitis C need active antiviral treatment, and alcoholic liver need to strictly abstain from alcohol, fatty liver need to actively exercise and lose weight, only to remove the various culprits leading to chronic liver inflammation and cirrhosis, the disease can gradually stabilize, splenomegaly, hypersplenism can be controlled.

Reason 2: if only mild splenomegaly without hypersplenism, it can not be treated temporarily; but if splenomegaly with hypersplenism, splenectomy can be used. Splenectomy can greatly relieve hypersplenism, white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets will gradually return to normal, but because the spleen is an important immune organ, it is prone to fulminant infection after splenectomy

Third, splenomegaly and hypersplenism can be treated by splenic artery embolization. By embolizing the blood supply artery of the spleen, some areas of the spleen can be infarcted and organized, which can also produce splenectomy effect. However, repeated fever, splenic abscess, splenic rupture and other serious complications may occur after splenic embolization, so it is not the first choice of treatment.

matters needing attention

If only splenectomy or splenic embolization is used to solve the problem of splenomegaly, patients may also have to face various other complications caused by cirrhosis, such as esophageal variceal bleeding, repeated ascites, infection, hepatic encephalopathy, etc. in fact, many methods treat the symptoms but not the root cause, so we need to continue to think of ways to treat, so eradicate all kinds of chronic liver diseases The etiology of inflammation and cirrhosis is particularly important.