Five Mistakes liver disease

From the clinical symptoms and signs of viral hepatitis can be divided into acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, severe hepatitis. Which by the hepatitis A virus and hepatitis E viral hepatitis, chronic hepatitis due to non-place, they will not develop into cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Heard that such and such a person's liver function is not normal, is usually the first reaction of the people that "he is not got hepatitis, will not be transmitted." As everyone knows, a considerable number of patients with abnormal liver function was not caused by hepatitis. In addition, even got hepatitis, do not panic, not all are infectious hepatitis, nor is it would develop into liver cirrhosis or liver cancer.

Misunderstanding 1 - liver disease is hepatitis

A great range of liver diseases, including infectious diseases accounted for the main part. Not only common viral hepatitis, as well as leptospirosis, parasitic infections (schistosomiasis, malaria and amoebic disease), liver abscess, liver granuloma change, hepatobiliary tuberculosis, leprosy, rickettsial infections, mycoplasma infections, relapsing fever, liver syphilis. Fungal infections, kala-azar, Clonorchis sinensis disease, liver and biliary ascariasis ascariasis, liver hydatid disease, biliary Giardia lamblia infection. In addition, many systemic infectious diseases also can cause small areas of focal necrosis of liver inflammation.

In addition to infection factors, other non-infectious factors also can cause changes in the liver.

● autoimmune diseases, such as autoimmune hepatitis;

● drugs and toxins causing liver injury, such as drug-induced, alcohol, industrial and environmental toxic liver disease, etc.;

● genetic and metabolic diseases, such as malnutrition, fatty liver, diabetes, etc.;

● hepatic vascular diseases, such as hepatic artery stenosis, hepatic artery aneurysm. Hepatic arteriovenous - venous fistula, etc.;

● liver tumors, such as primary liver cancer, metastatic liver cancer. Other liver tumor, a benign tumor such as liver and gallbladder.

Clinically, the disease can cause liver damage as many dozens, some of the very low incidence, not a few.