What is a sure sign of Liver damage? - sign of liver damage
I need to know the symptoms of liver injury. What is a quantity of the enzyme with high and this figure is considered high. If the liver to heal itself, unlike the brain. Thanks in advance
Monday, December 7, 2009
Sign Of Liver Damage What Is A Sure Sign Of Liver Damage?
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the liver can heal Yes - if the damage is not too large
Symptoms: jaundice, dark urine, tarry stools, nausea / vomiting, upper right abdominal pain, itching or tired
Signs: AST11-47 IU/L/ALT7-53 IU / L or bilirubin numbers 3-4 times the normal limit
The liver is very quiet, so that the signs
or refers to symptoms. There are people with liver problems and do not even know they have it .... such as hepatitis, etc.
You can start with flu-like symptoms or only
She feels very tired. When the liver cells are damaged ... that is, when most of the characters begins to happen: just as the eye and begin to turn yellow skin due to increased amounts of bilirubin in the blood (jaundice). His itching
by toxic substances in the blood that can not be processed in the liver. As the disease progresses, it can result in causing more severe disease such as confusion, which flows through a toxin from entering the brain (encephalitis), the accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity (ascites), blood by the liver and security in the veins (portal hypertension). These are just a few things.
There are a number of causes of liver disease:
, Alcohol detoxification,
Exposure to chemicals, mushroom poisoning, hereditary diseases, autoimmune diseases,
fatITY of the liver, viral infections, biliary obstruction or formal training, and there are others.
Will start a rule as a liver cell
damaged. The immune system then responds to this and cause inflammation to develop in the liver. This makes the liver swell in size. "If the cause is removed and the inflammation .... liver cells can heal." However, when liver cells begin to die-to ... a progression of the disease known as cirrhosis. Therefore, early treatment is the key to improving this situation.
The liver regenerates ... But if the cells will replace die, only the cells die.
Why? Cause cell death, scar tissue
formed in the liver, blocking the flow of
Blood cells and also in the liver.
This means that cells do not receive enough
Oxygen and food to live.
There are three types of blood tests doctors
performed to check the liver:
(1) liver enzymes that there is a hint
It can damage the liver cells.
These are the levels of ALT (normal range is between 0 and 48 U / L)
AST (normal range is between 0 and 42 U / L)
Alk Phos (normal is 20 to 125 U / L)
GGT (normal range is between 0 and 45 U / l for women and
0 to 65 U / l) in men)
(2) tests of liver function is given by
Physician an idea of how the liver cells
To work operations in order to maintain the body
Health. They are:
Bilirubin (normal range is 0 to 1.3 mg / dL)
The albumin and INR.
(3) Then there is the test virus to see if
Viruses such as Hepatitis A, B, C, is the cause.
Anything more than the figures presented here
It is normal that is considered high.
No blood tests are 100% are correct. There
Too many things can affect the test results ...
Therefore, doctors often more blood tests
just to be sure. If an inflammation of the liver is not ... allows the physician to an ultrasound or CT scan to look directly at the films
Liver. It would then
if prolonged, as the blOOD flows through
for liver tumors or cysts are
and a few other things.
For more information on blood
In fact ... We can write in your search:
Function of the liver, liver enzyme tests or
Each test can be viewed at this place at:
http://www.labtestsonline.org
Here is a link to cirrhosis:
http://www.medicinenet.com/cirrhosis/art ...
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cirrhos ...
Some are a little above normal ranges and may be normal for them.
The reference range, which I outlined here
are not embedded in the stone ... If you have one
Laboratory work carried out in two different laboratories, each can
are similar but not exactly.
I hope that this information can help some
Them.
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