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Interventional Cardiology

Cirrhosis Scholarly Journal

 When something attacks and damages the liver, liver cells are killed and connective tissue is made. This scarring process is named fibrosis (pronounced “fi-bro-sis”), and it happens slowly over a few years. When the entire liver is scarred, it shrinks and hardens. This is often called cirrhosis, and typically this damage can't be undone. Any illness that affects the liver over an extended period of your time may cause fibrosis and, eventually, cirrhosis. Heavy drinking and viruses (like hepatitis C or B) are common causes of cirrhosis. However, there are other causes also. Cirrhosis could also be caused by a buildup of fat within the liver of individuals who are overweight or have diabetes. Some people inherit genes that cause disease. Other causes include certain prescribed and over-the-counter medicines, environmental poisons, and autoimmune hepatitis, a condition during which a person’s own system attacks the liver as if it were a far off body. Cirrhosis causes the liver to become lumpy and stiff. This prevents blood from flowing through the liver easily and causes the build-up of pressure within the hepatic portal vein , the vein that brings blood to the liver. high within the hepatic portal vein is named malignant hypertension . to alleviate this pressure, the blood goes round the hepatic portal vein , through other veins. a number of these veins, called varices, are often found within the pipe that carries food from your mouth to your stomach (the esophagus) or in your stomach itself.

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