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Cirrhosis is long-term scarring of the liver. The liver makes enzymes and bile that help digest food and gives your body energy. It also removes harmful material from your body, such as alcohol and other chemicals. Cirrhosis is caused by repeated damage to your liver over time. Scar tissue...
Cirrhosis is scarring of the liver. Widespread nodules in the liver combined with fibrosis characterize cirrhosis anatomically. The fibrosis and nodule formation causes distortion of the normal liver architecture, which interferes with blood flow through the liver. Cirrhosis can also lead to an inabilit...
7 Liver cirrhosis is a disease that causes the hardening and scarring of the liver tissues. The following statements show some effects of cirrhosis:I Bile production will be reduced significantly.ll Digestive enzyme production will be reduced.Ill Glycogen cannot be stored.IV Ure a will not be ...
Each time your liver gets hurt, it repairs itself and forms tough scar tissue. When too much scar tissue builds up, the organ can't work the way it should. Your doctor might call this condition cirrhosis of the liver. Cirrhosis is scarring of the liver, often caused by fatty liver dise...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -Cirrhosis is a big medical word that certainly is well known or at least heard about often by the general public. Cirrhosis is a permanent scarring of the liver. It is caused by drinking too much alcohol and by hepatitis. A fatty die, certain medications and even our...
cirrhosis, irreversible change in the normal liver tissue that results in the degeneration of functioning liver cells and their replacement with fibrous connective tissue. Cirrhosis can have a number of causes; the term is applied whenever the end result is scarring of the liver. Laënnec, or ...
Cirrhosis is the extensive scarring of the liver caused by long-term injury. Reviewed by a board-certified internal medicine physician.
Liver cirrhosis is irreversible damage or scarring to the liver as a result of advanced liver disease (such as hepatitis) that stops the liver functioning, potentially leading to liver failure. Healthy tissue is replaced by areas of liver fibrosis and regenerative nodules, which alters the normal...
structure and function of the liver. There are three types ofcirrhosis or scarring of the liver:Alcoholic cirrhosisPostnecrotic cirrhosisBiliary cirrhosisThe portion of the liver chiefly involved in cirrhosis consists of the portal and the periportal spaces, where the bilecanaliculi of each lobule ...