What are symtoms of chorisis of the liver?
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Liver cirrhosis can be without any obvious symptoms. Cirrhosis basically means that there is scar tissue in the liver, and its diagnosis generally requires a liver biopsy for proof. The most common causes are chronic viral hepatitis B and/or C, alcoholic cirrhosis, as well as a bunch of other conditions (PBC, NASH, AIH, ...).
Liver cirrhosis can impair liver function, which in turn can cause a myriad of symptoms.
These include jaundice (yellow discoloration), protein-wasting, fluid collection in the free peritoneal cavity with a swollen abdomen (ascites), alteration of mental status ranging all the way from difficulty sleeping at night and concentrating to full blown coma, gastrointestinal hemorrhage from varices along the food pipe (esophageal and sometimes stomach varices), ...
Being tired, weight loss, nausea, no appitite, abdominal pain.
Later stages, swellling of legs, abdomen & face maybe, fluid has to be drawn off the abdomen sometimes, brusing, bleeding, jaundice color to the skin & eyes. By the time you get to the later stages you usually know what it is
Quite often a lot of aspecific complains like fatigue, in advanced disease jaundice, swollen ankels (edema) and swollen belly with fluid in it (ascites), bleeding tendency, loss of concentration, unsteady handwriting, sometimes serious bleeding from the esophagus where veins can become /engorged and bleed, and in the end coma.
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