This is a disease that affects the individual directly in the liver due to different chronic diseases; In other words, a disease that is 6 months and older in a human being is already considered "chronic" over time, the liver becomes inflamed and that is where cirrhosis occurs.
The degree of liver cirrhosis will depend on the functionality that the liver retains despite the histological alteration (Everything related to organic tissues: their structure, development and functions). It can also be said that this disease is the scarring and different functioning of the liver, which comes as a consequence of: infection by hepatitis B or hepatitis C and alcoholism. These two are the main causes but not the only ones since the less common but important are: when the immune cells mistake normal liver cells for harmful invaders and attack them, bile duct disorder, some medicines, generation-transmitted liver diseases in generation, accumulation of fat in the liver that is not caused by excess consumption ofalcohol also called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NASH).
This manifests itself through different symptoms that can present different severity depending on each case. 25% of patients do not present any type of symptoms and this is what is known in medicine as latent liver cirrhosis. When it comes to liver cirrhosis, they show signs of a damaged liver or that the disease exists, such as: exhaustion, pressure or a sensation of swelling above the navel, general malaise, weight loss, nausea and vomiting, it should be noted that the skin It also shows symptoms of this disease such as redness of the thumb and little finger, very red and shiny lips and tongue, totally white nails, among others.
