What is the meaning of the commonly used liver diseases that leads to cirrhosis?
When disease
damages your liver, it does not function normally.
The medical term is listed on the left column and the explanation is given on the right column.
Viral
Hepatitis: Hepatitis B or C
|
My liver
is damaged by some viruses that damage the liver
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Alcoholic
Hepatitis
|
My liver
is damaged by drinking alcohol in excess
|
Non-Alcoholic
Steatohepatitis [N.A.S.H.]
|
My liver
is damaged by fat deposition in the liver
|
Primary
Biliary Cirrhosis [P.B.C.]
|
My liver
is damaged by my own body producing antibodies against some type of liver
cells
|
Primary
Sclerosing Cholangitis [P.S.C.]
|
|
Alpha-1-antitrypsin
deficiency
|
My liver has
a deficiency in an enzyme that leads to liver damage
|
Drug-induced
Hepatitis
|
My liver
is damaged by drugs taken for other medical illness
|
Budd
Chiari Syndrome
|
My liver
is damaged by clotting of blood in the blood vessels of the liver
|
Congenital
Fibrotic Disease
|
|
Cryptogenic
Cirrhosis
|
My liver
is damaged, but the cause of the damage is not clear by currently available
tests
|
Hemochromatosis
|
My liver
is damaged by excessive deposit of iron in the liver cells.
|
Polycystic
Liver Disease
|
My liver
is damaged by the formation of cysts in the liver
|
Wilson’s
Disease
|
My liver
is damaged by excessive deposit of copper in the liver cells.
|
In addition
to liver failure, these diseases may also increase the risk of liver cancer.
Patients also develop sudden liver failure with
unknown causes called acute or subacute or fulminant liver failure.
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