Fatty liver can make patient's life-span shorten _'s general knowledge
Fat hepatopathy can take place in every age bracket, see at most at 40- 50 years old. Usually there is much and relatively slight clinical manifestation, and without specificity, most patients have no hepatopathy and relevant symptom, mainly find at the physical examination of the health or because other diseases once in a while while learning to check the liver image. Some patients can have appetite paining, abdominal distension and right upper abdomen of failing, sick, weak, liver district to oppress the sense or bloated full sense, symptom these and fatty infiltration lead to the fact liver to be swelling in the liver perhaps, liver make membrane uphold, have something to do excessively, and may follow other diseases.
Fat hepatopathy due to different causes of disease, its course of disease and prognosis are different to some extent. Only if the alcohol course of disease of fatty liver is relatively long, generally present benign process, but about 30% case will be developed into fat hepatitis, and the latter 15% - 50% There are liver fibers, 7% - 25% can develop into and harden. If alcohol fatty liver can stop drinking, the prognosis is good, the fat can disappear gradually in the liver after January or several months, but if drink continuously, can present liver cirrhosis within several years. Such as getting treating effectively, the fiber incidence takes place and is up to 25% in fatty liver, invite 1.5% - 8.0% Patient progress liver cirrhosis. Once develop into liver cirrhosis, its prognosis is the same as general liver cirrhosis.
Fatty liver and hepatocarcinoma do not have direct relation, but one of the causes of disease of fatty liver (alcohol) And due to liver cirrhosis with hepatocarcinoma relate. Western countries statistics show, fat hepatopathy can make the life-span of the patient under the age of 50 shorten by 4 years, make over 50 the patient's life-span is shortened by 10 years.
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