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Decompensated Cirrhosis

July 24, 2019

Decompensated Cirrhosis
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To understand what decompensated cirrhosis is, it’s necessary that you first understand what compensated cirrhosis is. Compensated cirrhosis is a kind of liver disease that doesn’t show up any symptoms at all because the liver is fully functional. However, as the liver function begins to fall, the individual begins to suffer from decompensated cirrhosis.

Decompensated cirrhosis consists of an advanced stage of liver disease. People with this condition are close to the final stage of liver failure. They are perfect candidates for a liver transplant.

Causes

As you perhaps know, cirrhosis is the scarring of the liver. But the decompensated condition is the chronic stage of cirrhosis when the scarring becomes chronic and the liver can no longer function optimally. Whatever affects the liver usually ends in scarring and decompensated cirrhosis.

This condition has these causes:

  • The habit of being a heavy alcohol drinker over a long period
  • Severe Hepatitis B or C
  • Accumulation of fat within the liver

Secondary causes are:

  • A build-up of copper and iron
  • Underdeveloped bile ducts
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Injuries of the bile duct
  • Autoimmune liver diseases
  • Infections of the liver
  • Medications including methotrexate

Symptoms

Cirrhosis doesn’t show up any symptoms, but when it develops into decompensated cirrhosis, it displays these symptoms:

  • Jaundice
  • Bruising and bleeding
  • Swollen legs
  • Accumulation of fluid in the abdomen which bloats up
  • Fatigue
  • Nausea and loss of appetite
  • Weight loss
  • Spider veins
  • Confusion, drowsiness or slurred speech
  • Red palms
  • Shrinking testicle size
  • Growth of breasts in men
  • Body itch

Diagnosis

When the doctor sees cirrhosis symptoms, he will diagnose the patient with decompensated cirrhosis. The following tests will confirm his diagnosis:

  • Blood tests
  • MELD score (Model for End-stage Liver Disease) ranging between six and 40
  • Liver biopsy
  • MRI scans, CT scans and ultrasounds

Treatment

Liver disease in this chronic condition is irreversible. However, such patients can easily go in for liver transplantation. If the patient shows up a minimum of one decompensated cirrhosis symptom plus 15 or higher on the MELD scale, a liver transplantation should be considered.

Why Rela Hospital:

Advantages/Expertise

When a disease creeps up on you unknown to you, it can come as a great big shock to you. That’s when you need a doctor who understands you and guides you on the right path. At the Dr Rela Hospital, Chennai, India, the doctors do this and much more.

It’s not just a Liver cirrhosis treatment hospital in Chennai, as you will experience. True, you put yourself in the hands of the finest Liver Treatment Specialist in Chennai India and his team, but you can also confide your feelings and fears to them and seek their solace and guidance.

Over the past couple of decades, this hospital has reached out to many liver disease patients, many of whom have been given a second lease of life. Ever since, they have been spreading the word that the Rela Hospital is the place to be in when one has the severity and magnitude of liver disease as they had. In fact, it is they who introduce this hospital as the Best Liver Transplantation Hospital in India.

Drop by to see what we can offer, should you ever need such expertise. As always, we do wish you the very best of health.

Disclaimer: We recommend consulting a Doctor before taking any action based on the above shared information.


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