Liver Disease
Your liver is a large and powerful organ that performs hundreds of essential functions in your body. One of its most important functions is filtering toxins from your blood. While your liver is well-equipped for this job, its role as a filter makes it vulnerable to the toxins it processes. Too many toxins can overwhelm your liver’s resources and ability to function. This can happen temporarily or over a long period of time.
When healthcare providers refer to liver disease, they’re usually referring to chronic conditions that do progressive damage to your liver over time. Viral infections, toxic poisoning and certain metabolic conditions are among the common causes of chronic liver disease. Your liver has great regenerative powers, but constantly working overtime to restore itself takes its toll. Eventually, it can’t keep up.
Symptoms of Liver disease may include:
Upper abdominal pain.
Nausea or loss of appetite.
Fatigue and malaise (feeling generally tired and ill).
Jaundice (yellow tint to the whites of your eyes and skin).
Dark-colored pee (urine).
Light-colored poop (stool).
Digestive difficulties, especially with fats.
End-stage liver disease refers to decompensated cirrhosis and liver failure, when your liver has lost the ability to regenerate and is slowly declining. The most significant side effects of end-stage liver disease are portal hypertension and primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma). Complications of these two conditions are the leading causes of hospitalization and death in people with cirrhosis and liver failure.
While not everyone with chronic liver disease gets primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), most people who do get liver cancer have chronic liver disease.
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