Predominant...
Review risk factors (alcohol abuse, viral hepatitis, family history of primary liver cancer, other liver disease, or autoimmune disease).
Symptoms
Fatigue, malaise, weakness
Anorexia, we...
Abstain from alcohol, drugs, and hepatot...
Monitor liver enzymes, sodium, creatinine, platelets, and PT q6–12mo; calculate MELD score
Serial α-fetoprotein and liver ultrasound screening q6–12mo in patients with cirrhosis. Patients ...
Chalasani N, Younossi Z, Lavine JE, et al. The diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: practice guidance from the American Associ...
K74.60 Unspecified cirrhosis of liver
K70.30 Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver without ascites
K74.69 Other cirrhosis of liver
K76.1 Chronic passive congestion of liver
19943007 Cirrhosis of l...
80% of chronic liver disease that leads to cirrhosis is preventable (primarily alcohol abuse).
After diagnosis of cirrhosis, abdominal ultrasound every 6 months for early detection of H...
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Chronic hepatitis with cirrhosis. A photomicrograph of the liver from a patient with long-standing chronic active hepatitis B shows hepatocellular nodules and chronically inflamed fibrous septa.
Chronic hepatitis with cirrhosis. A photomicrograph of the liver from a patient with long-standing chronic active hepatitis B shows hepato...
Alcoholic cirrhosis. The surface of the liver displays innumerable small, regular nodules.
Alcoholic cirrhosis. A photomicrograph shows small regular nodules surrounded by uniform fibrous septa.
Cirrhosis of the liver. The consequence of chronic hepatic injury is the formation of regenerating nodules separated by bands of fibrous connective tissue (blue).
Cirrhosis of the liver. The consequence of chronic hepatic injury is the formation of regenerating nodules separated by bands of fibrous co...