General Medical Advices

What causes the inflammation that causes cirrhosis?

Excessive consumption of alcohol: the incidence of cirrhosis in a country is directly related to alcohol consumption per capita.

Chronic viral hepatitis, chronic viral hepatitis in the two viruses involved are those of hepatitis B and hepatitis C. Cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B virus is common in Africa and Asia. The importance of HCV is high in Europe and the U.S., and rising.

Primary biliary cirrhosis: Primary biliary cirrhosis is a rare disease that affects mostly women. Do not abuse alcohol. In these patients the body which, for reasons not known, it triggers an attack on his own liver.

Autoimmune chronic active hepatitis: disease even rarer than the previous one, in which the action taken against the body’s own liver is triggered by the immune system.

Drugs and chemicals: although there are enough drugs and chemicals that can damage the liver, few ever lead to cirrhosis. However, some specific drugs should be administered under supervision, because they damage the liver.

Metabolic and Hereditary diseases are different, uncommon, giving rise to the accumulation of toxins in the liver. The most common is hemochromatosis, in which the iron is toxic in excess accumulated in the liver.

credit to: Dr. José María Ladero Quesada, Dr. Carl J. Brandt, Dr. Ove Schaffalitzky de Muckadell, Dr. Alan Ogilvie

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