Liver Fibrosis: What Is Reversible and What Not? How to Assess Regression?Hepatic fibrosis is the liver wound-healing response to injury and it is characterized by the accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM). When the damaging insult persists, ECM production exceeds ECM...
Liver fibrosis is not treated directly. The cause of your liver fibrosis will need to be treated. Some causes cannot be treated. An example is congenital hepatic fibrosis. If the cause of your fibrosis can be treated, your healthcare provider will talk to you about your options. Your ...
If there is no gall bladder, then there is nowhere for bile to be stored. So what happens as a result of this? Hepatic ducts would no longer have to carry bile between the liver and gall bladder. So, where is it stored? Does it just roam about freely, trying to find where it ...
A hepatic vein is any of the veins that are used to carry oxygen-depleted blood out of the liver and into the inferior vena cava...
How is liver cancer treated?Surgery may be done to remove tumors that are small and have not spread to other parts of the body. Medicines , such as chemotherapy, may be used to reduce the size of the tumor. Medicines may also be given to prevent cancer cells from growing or spreading....
A liver hemangioma is a type of noncancerous (benign) growth in yourliver. Your doctor might call it a hepatic hemangioma. The hemangioma, or tumor, is a tangle ofbloodvessels. It’s the most common noncancerous growth in the liver. It’s rarely serious and doesn’t turn intoliver can...
Hepatic fibrosis is the scarring response of the liver to lesions of different nature that when they become persistent, can generate changes in the architecture of the liver. Damage starts with the subendothelial deposit of fibrous tissue that becomes panlobular with the corresponding formation of ...
Stage III (fibrosis): Over time, the inflammation starts converting healthy liver tissue into scar tissue. Stage IV (cirrhosis): When an extensive portion of the liver tissue turns into scar tissue, the stage is called liver cirrhosis or late-stage liver disease because the liver gets damaged ...
Chronic hepatitis with hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis Alcohol-related fatty liver disease, or simple steatosis, is the mildest stage of ALD. The terms steatosis and fatty liver both refer to the accumulation of fat in the liver. At this stage, the injury to the liver is minimal. ...
Liver fat storage, also called hepatic steatosis, is increasingly common and represents a very frequent diagnosis in the medical field. Excess fat is not without consequences. In fact, hepatic steatosis contributes to the progression toward liver fibrosis. There are two main types of fatty liver di...