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Liver cirrhosis
- scarring of the liver - is the end-stage of most chronic liver
diseases. You can live for a long period with liver cirrhosis - if the
function does not keep up there always remains liver transplantation.
Liver cirrhosis is most frequently caused by chronic viral hepatitis:
You can live for a long time with liver cirrhosis; as a matter of fact
many patients walk around and do not even know that they have it.
However, in its end-stage the consequences are severe:
- Esophageal varices can result in
severe interal bleeding and even death.
- Ascites
- Jaundice
- Liver cancer
- Liver coma (hepatic encephalopathy; this is due
to a poisoning because the liver cannot filter the blood which comes
from the intestine anymore
As soon as one of these complications occurs, liver transplantation
ought to be discussed. This is nowadays a routine operation. Our
patients leave the hospital after a stay of 7 - 10 days. Motivated
patients are back at work after three months or less. |
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Stiftung
für
Leberkrankheiten
Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie
Universität Bern
Murtenstrasse 35,
Postfach 49
3010 Bern
0041 (0)31 632 31 91
Info@leberstiftung.ch |
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