Question

liver cirrohsis

Answer 1

Liver cirrhosis is a chronic progressive deteriorative disease which is caused by a variety of external effects. One of the most important and widely encountered reasons for liver cirrhosis is chronic consumption of large amount of alcohol. Alcohol, including other toxins, is degraded by the hepatic enzymes (alcohol dehydrognease) into smaller non-toxic compounds. However, under chronic intake, the capacity of hepatic enzymes to degrade the alcohol degrades. Thus, the liver eventually fails to degrade the toxin and it accumulates in the hepatic cells. As a result, non-oxygenic metabolism of this alcohol takes place leading to onset of disease symptoms, such as mis-digestion, pain the liver, inability to digest fats, sugar metabolism related problems, swelling and inflammation. This is a clinical condition and demands immediate attention. Finally, the condition can also give rise to irreversible damage to the liver cells and tissue resulting in cirrhosis.