Symptoms of liver disease

Liver disease is expressed in many different ways. Indicators of liver diseases that are of particular importance as jaundice, cholestasis, increased liver, portal hypertension, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy and liver failure.

Liver disease doctor diagnosed based on symptoms described by patients and physical examination.

The main clinical symptoms of liver disease

Jaundice (icterus)

Enlarged liver (hepatomegaly)

The fluid in the abdomen (ascites)

Confusion because of encephalopathy

Gastrointestinal bleeding due to varices

Portaina hypertension

Skin

• Varicose veins like spider

• Red palms

• ruddy appearance

• Itching

Blood

• Reduced number of red blood cells (anemia)

• Reduced number of white blood cells (leukopenia)

• Reduced number of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia)

• A tendency to bleed (coagulopathy)

Hormones

• High levels of insulin, but the weak response to it

• Cessation of menstruation and decreased fertility (in women)

• Impotence and effeminate appearance (in men)

Heart and blood vessels

• The acceleration of heart rate and amount of blood ejected

• Reduced blood pressure (hypotension)

General symptoms

• Fatigue

• Weakness

• Weight loss

• Poor appetite

• Nausea

• Fever

Icterus

(Jaundice)

• Introduction • Symptoms • Diagnosis and Treatment

Introduction

Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin and scleral (white of the eye) caused by abnormally high levels of bile pigment bilirubin in the blood stream.

Old or damaged red blood cells (erythrocytes) from the circulation largely removes the spleen. During this procedure, hemoglobin, red blood cells of which carries oxygen, is decomposed into

bilirubin. Bilirubin is transferred to the liver and excreted into the intestine as a component of bile. If the excretion of bilirubin is disabled, the excess bilirubin passes into the bloodstream, which results in the formation of jaundice.

High levels of bilirubin in the blood may be due to inflammation or other abnormalities of liver cells, which prevents the excretion of bilirubin in the bile. Alternatively, bile ducts outside the liver may be blocked gallstone or tumor. Less frequently high levels of bilirubin may result from destruction of a large number of red blood cells, as sometimes occurs in newborns with jaundice.

In Gilbert's syndrome, the bilirubin level was slightly elevated, but usually not enough to cause jaundice. It is sometimes hereditary condition usually discovered during a routine search results (screening) of liver function, the state has no other symptoms or causes problems.

Symptoms

In jaundice the skin and whites of the eyes yellow. The urine is often dark because of bilirubin excretion by the kidneys. There are also other symptoms depending on the cause of jaundice, for example. liver inflammation (hepatitis) can cause loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and fever. Stopping the bile can cause symptoms of cholestasis.

Diagnosis and Treatment

To determine the cause of jaundice doctor uses laboratory tests and imaging tests. If the problem is the disease of the liver, for example. viral hepatitis, jaundice will usually disappear as the state of liver repair. If the problem is in the common bile duct occlusion, it is usually as quickly as possible to do surgery or endoscopy (a procedure using flexible tubes to observe the surgical connections) to be blocked bile path to reopen.