Liver

The Amazing Liver The liver is a vital organ that supports most other organs. A human being cannot survive without a healthy liver. The liver is the body’s largest gland and organ, and is made of five parts called the left lobe, the right lobe, the caudate lobe, the quadrate lobe, and the coronary ligament that connects the four lobes. At the bottom of the coronary ligament are four parts called the left triangular ligament, the right triangular ligament, the falciform ligament and the ligamentum

Alcohol can have negative effects on liver function. When alcohol is consumed the body starts trying to metabolize it but has no way of doing so. The liver then has to work detoxify and remove the alcohol from the bloodstream. Once the liver finishes the oxidation process, the alcohol becomes water and carbon dioxide. If the alcohol accumulates in the body, it may destroy cells and organs. The oxidative metabolism prevents this from happening. When too much alcohol is ingested at once, the toxins

become more accessible to its liver transplant patients. Liver Transplant patients are an obscure sup group of veterans to pay attention to. The Madison Veterans Hospital focuses on liver transplant patients because it is a new program within the hospital and is the second most common type of transplant. Liver transplants in veterans are primarily a result of hepatitis C, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatis, and liver cancer. Vietnam veterans are most likely to undergo liver transplants because they were

Harmful effects of alcohol on the liver The liver is the body 's largest solid organ. Receives about 1.5 liters of blood per minute and is involved in three important vital functions essential for our body: the purification, synthesis and storage. The liver recovers and transforms many toxic to render them harmless before disposal. Destroys red blood cells and white blood cell aging and certain bacteria in the blood. Destroy the waste produced by the body naturally, like ammonia, as also those

What can cause liver failure? Liver failure occurs when liver cells are damaged significantly and are no longer able to function. The cause of liver failure varies widely throughout the world. Drugs toxicity is more common in United States & Western countries while HBV infection is a leading cause in India, France and Japan. Common causes include: • Acetaminophen overdose. Minimal hepatotoxic dose is 7.5 gm in adults, 150 mg/kg in children and severe toxicity is seen with dose > 15 gm. It is a common

Liver Transplant, Pediatric Liver transplant is surgery to replace your child’s liver with a liver from another person (donor liver). Your child may need this surgery if no other treatment can restore health to the liver. Liver transplant is a major surgery. You and your child will work with a team of health care providers (transplant team) to help you prepare for the procedure and to help your child recover from the procedure. A donor liver may come from a living person who donates part of his

Waiting for a Liver Transplant The anticipation of receiving a gift may lead a person to be anxious; however, imagine that gift of a liver and said person has been waiting for months for it. In Waiting for a Liver Transplant (2006), the authors describe the process that transplant participants go through during the waiting period before receiving a liver transplant. Furthermore, identifying initial participants through a rigorous interview process, participants continue to wait for their acceptance

absorbed into the bloodstream by the stomach and small intestines, and is then circulated throughout the body. Although the alcohol in the blood can be metabolised in different ways, at different parts of the body, it primarily takes place in the liver. Alcohol is converted to acetaldehyde by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, and acetaldehyde is converted to acetate by aldehyde dehydrogenase.  These metabolic reactions require the coenzyme NAD+ in order to occur. The acetate product can be used by

Liver Transplantation Roy Franco Brown Mackie College NURS 2203 July 27, 2015 Mr. Nowicki Liver Transplantation The human liver is the largest organ in the body it is responsible for over 400 functions such as protein synthesis, blood clotting factors, processing of fats and cholesterol, metabolizing bilirubin, red blood cells, drugs and alcohol and also for storing carbohydrates (Merli, 208).When failure of the liver begins the necessity for transplantation of a non-healthy liver with a healthy

How to detox your liver naturally? Description: You should know how to detox your liver in a natural manner so that you can choose selective ingredients that can make your liver cleansed in a safe and protective manner. Livers represent the most valuable organs of human beings and these organs are used for releasing insulin for controlling energy levels and blood sugar. Fats can be easily digested with the liver bile and this is why the organ is of greater importance. Liver toxicity can be quite