Liver

multidimensional function of the liver makes it prone to various diseases. These diseases interfere with liver function and leads to its derangement. However, the liver has a great reserve capacity to regenerate and it only produces symptoms after extensive damage. The liver diseases are categorized into chronic and acute disease. Acute disease occur rapidly and exist for a short period while chronic liver disease involves a process of progressive destruction and regeneration of liver parenchyma leading to

The Liver Fluke worm is another name for a type of flatworms. Liver fluke is a chronic parasitic disease of the bile ducts. The adult worms can be found in the liver of infected animals and humans, but mainly sheep and cattle. An adult fluke lays 2000-4000 eggs each day. You can get Liver flukes by consuming raw/undercooked meat. Adult flukes settle in your small ducts and can live there for 20-30 years! The most well known species that causes liver flukes is called Clonorchis Sinensis. Around 35

Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus. It was discovered about twenty-eight years ago. The liver is very essential to life because it has many important functions in our bodies. Hepatitis C is a blood-borne virus. Hepatitis C is not a virus that you can visibly see unless you run a blood test and discover it in the blood. Hepatitis C is contagious but it is treatable and is considered cured if the virus is no longer detectable in your blood. Considering that some of the Hepatitis

How Drinking Causes Gut Microbe Imbalance Linked to Liver Disease is an article that builds on the common knowledge that alcohol consumption damages the liver. The liver is the organ in the body that filters out everything in your bloodstream that may harm you, for example alcohol. It also produces a substance called bile that breaks down lipids. For these reasons, the liver is a very important organ in the digestive system in the body and this article shows how alcohol damages it. It has long been

2320-5407 International Journal of Advanced Research (2015), Volume 3, Issue 12, 1539 – 1548 1539 Journal homepage: http://www.journalijar.com INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH RESEARCH ARTICLE Portal vein thrombosis in patients with liver cirrhosis Insights to risk factors, clinical presentation and outcome Afifi F. Afifi 1 , Usama M. Basha 1 , Fady M. Wadea 1 , Abdelaziz E. Samack 2 , Raghda A. Elsherbini 3 1- GIT and hepatology unit, internal medicine department, faculty of medicine

Stages of Alcoholism Leading to Cirrhosis of the Liver Mikal Norvell Fortis Institute, Dr. Bassant Abstract This paper describes, briefly, the stages of the alcoholism as it slowly damages the liver, and finally results in permanent, irreversible damage called cirrhosis. Excessive alcohol consumption, or alcoholism is the number one cause of cirrhosis in the U.S. Though tolerance levels are different for each individual, daily consumption of more than ten alcoholic drinks over ten or more years

Statistical Analysis Of Early Detection Of Liver Cirrhosis Through Medical Image Processing Megha Bahdauria1,Chetna Garg1, Dr. Saurabh Mukherjee2, K.F. Rahman2 1.Mtech Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India 2. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India Abstract: Statistical operations provide the means of principle of solving the many type of problems which require the uncertain information in cirrhosis

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). Typically, liver disease is seen as a result of the over-consumption of alcohol, but sugar can also have a similar effect on the liver. As previously described, when glucose is consumed it is dispersed throughout the body via insulin and the extra is sent to the liver to be stored. Glucose consumed at low to moderate levels will not have an overly detrimental effect on the liver. Fructose, however, circumvents insulin and is directed straight to the liver (Stanhope

aging, liver cirrhosis is progressively predominant, and more elderly population with already diagnosed liver disease will be seen by geriatricians. It very useful to understand predictive factors for survival in cirrhotic patients in order to help with therapeutic decision-making, including allocation for liver transplantation (Fox et al., 2011). There are associations between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and liver cirrhosis. The effect of cardiovascular diseases on the underlying liver disease

Running head: Liver biopsy 1 Liver biopsy guided by ultrasound (US) versus computed tomography (CT) Faisal Haq ECPI University Abstract Liver biopsy guided by ultrasound (US) versus computed tomography (CT) ​Liver disease is one of the leading causes of death in the United States with the mortality rate of 38