Decompensated cirrhosis

There are many common diseases, and different diseases have different symptoms, causes, and treatments. Therefore, before treating the disease, you need to have a good understanding of these so that you can choose a good method during treatment. So what is the decompensated stage of cirrhosis? What are the manifestations of late-stage cirrhosis? When these situations occur, patients also need to pay attention to many aspects.

Many people do not understand the decompensated stage of cirrhosis. When this happens, multiple treatment methods must be chosen. In addition, these patients must also pay attention to their diet and choose easily digestible foods.

Decompensated cirrhosis:

The decompensated stage of cirrhosis is the symptom of the late stage of cirrhosis. It generally refers to the development of cirrhosis to a certain extent, exceeding the compensatory capacity of liver function, and there are obvious clinical pathological changes. The main manifestations are liver function damage, portal hypertension, splenomegaly, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy or upper gastrointestinal bleeding. This period is called the decompensated stage of cirrhosis.

Causes

There are many causes of liver cirrhosis. Viral hepatitis is the most common in my country, while alcohol poisoning is the most common cause abroad.

1. Viral hepatitis: mainly type B viral hepatitis, followed by type C or type B and type D superinfection and type E generally do not develop into cirrhosis.

2. Japanese schistosomiasis: It is common in schistosomiasis-endemic areas in the Yangtze River Basin of my country. In patients with repeated or long-term schistosomiasis infection, the worm eggs and their toxic products stimulate the proliferation of connective tissue in the portal area of ​​the liver, leading to liver fibrosis and portal hypertension, which is called schistosomiasis fibrosis.

3. Alcohol poisoning: For those who drink large amounts of alcohol for a long time, alcohol and its intermediate metabolites (acetaldehyde) directly damage liver cells and reduce resistance to certain toxic substances. Long-term nutritional imbalance caused by alcoholism also has a certain damaging effect on the liver.

4. Drugs or chemical poisons: Long-term use of certain drugs such as diacetyl, methyldopa, etc. can cause toxic hepatitis and eventually develop into cirrhosis.

5. Cholestasis: When extrahepatic bile duct obstruction or intrahepatic bile stasis persists, high concentrations of bile acid and bilirubin will damage liver cells, causing liver cell degeneration and necrosis, and fibrous tissue proliferation, leading to cirrhosis.

6. Chronic congestive heart failure, constrictive pericarditis, obstruction of the hepatic vein or inferior vena cava, etc. cause long-term congestion of the liver, hepatocyte hypoxia, necrosis and connective tissue hyperplasia, and finally develop into cirrhosis.

The above is a detailed introduction to the decompensated stage of cirrhosis. This type of disease is very harmful to human health. In terms of treatment, medication is the best choice. However, due to different causes of disease in patients, the treatment methods are also different. It is also necessary to choose a treatment method suitable for the patient based on the doctor's advice.