Alcoholic and fatty chronic liver desease with its treatment with diet

LIVER DESEASE

Introduction: Liver is the largest internal organ of human body performing over 100 different functions. The extreme complication of liver makes it prone to various ailments, most of which are scarce. Liver deseases are usually classified by their cause and the affect they have on the liver.

Types of Liver diseases: More commonly known diseases include:

• Hepatitis: liver inflammation mostly caused by different viruses
• Cirrhosis: fibrous tissue formation in the liver replacing dead liver cells
• Hemochromatosis: hereditary ailment causing gathering of excessive iron in the body
• Liver cancer: hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma & metastatic cancers generally spread from other body part via gastrointestinal tract
• Wilson’s disease: hereditary ailment causing excessive copper retention
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis: autoimmune type inflammatory disease in bile duct
• Preliminary biliary cirrhosis: autoimmune desease of small bile duct
• Budd-Chiari syndrome: obstruction of the hepatic veins
• Gilbert’s syndrome: genetic disorder related to bilirubin metabolism
• Glycogen storage type II: accumulation of glycogen causing progressive muscle weakness affecting body tissues of heart, skeletal, liver and nervous system

Causes: Inflammatory disorder, specific viral infections, typical drug interactions, excessive consumption of alcohol, right heart failure, fatty liver condition due to diabetes, hyperlipidemia or obesity, overload deposition of iron, excessive copper accumulation. However, lesser common causes like tricuspid regurgitation – bringing up again of eaten foods, amyloidosis, visceral leishmaniasis and HIV / AIDS are also reported in rare cases.

Symptoms: Mild and non-specific liver disease patients exhibit symptoms such as: fatigue, weakness, vague abdominal pain, loss of appetite, yellowing of skin – jaundice because of gathering of bilirubin in the blood – itching – easy bruising due to reduced production of blood clotting factors by the damaged liver condition.

However, serious advanced liver deseases like cirrhosis of liver, the symptoms may be like: accumulation of the fluid in the legs – edema and abdomen – ascites; mental confusion or comatose, kidney failure, prone to bacterial contagions and gastrointestinal bleeding.

Diagnosis: It is depending on the reports of the requisite laboratory tests of: Blood, Compound Tomography Scan–CTS, Magnetic Resonance Imaging–MRI, Ultrasound, Endoscope and Liver biopsy.

Treatment: Treating liver disease entirely depends on patient’s specific liver conditions such as: Usual cancer treatment like chemotherapy and radiation, Chemoembolization – process of injecting cancer germs killing drugs through catheter into the liver and other intervening cancer treatments, Bile duct drainage through catheter, Stenting, Blood Pressure lowering medication via intravenous and Liver Transplant.

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