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I have mild liver cirrhosis, What is my prognosis?
He was hospitalized with a bleeding gastric in January this year, were not sure the bleeding was. I had two esophageal varices with bands and now also suffered encephalopathy gone.I liver, ascites and edema, which has now become clear. An ultrasound showed some scarring in the liver and abnormal liver function tests even after 8 months. Not in end-stage liver failure, but what is the prognosis?
You do not say what caused the cirrhosis, which is very important for me to answer your question. I do not think you have mild cirrhosis of what you say about your symptoms. My liver was destroyed 90% with cirrhosis and I did not all the symptoms, so you think your liver disease is more advanced than you think. This is my personal opinion, but I would say that his prognosis was not well and eventually will have to receive a transplant. When you have mild cirrhosis, is asymptomatic which means they have no symptoms that something is wrong. Since you were able to get their symptoms under control with treatment and medication, which means cirrhosis is "balanced", which is the phase B cirrhosis. When the treatments and medications begin to not work as well in controlling symptoms, which means that it is "unbalanced" and the total liver failure is near. Had cirrhosis and even my liver destroyed 90%, with scar tissue, which was still able to control my symptoms all the way up my transplant. Primary biliary cirrhosis, which means that my autoimmune system attacks the bile ducts in my liver. I had varicose veins with bands and also became screening every 3-6 months. I never had encephalopathy. By the time physical symptoms appear with cirrhosis, the disease is usually quite advanced. If cirrhosis is caused by alcohol abuse, then you need to stop drinking all alcohol. If not, drink at the top of cirrhosis that no matter what so slight that it could be is like adding gasoline to a fire. Only worse much faster.
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