Description
Liver disease awareness is crucial for understanding the impact of liver conditions on health. Expert insights emphasize the importance of early detection and intervention to prevent progression and complications. Common liver diseases such as fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis require tailored management strategies based on individual patient factors. Lifestyle modifications, including a healthy diet and regular exercise, play a key role in liver disease prevention and management. Expert guidance emphasizes the significance of regular liver function tests and screenings for at-risk populations. Advanced treatments such as liver transplantation highlight the critical need for organ donation awareness. Public education campaigns are essential to promote liver health and reduce the burden of liver disease on individuals and society. Overall, raising awareness through expert insights empowers individuals to take proactive steps towards liver disease prevention and management.
Résumé
- The liver is a vital organ responsible for metabolic processing, red blood cell decomposition, blood composition regulation, hormone production, detoxification, vitamin absorption, and food digestion. Fatty liver disease, characterized by excess fat accumulation, can lead to cirrhosis and even cancer if left untreated.
- Risk factors for fatty liver include genetic inheritance, obesity, medication side effects, rapid weight loss, dyslipidemia, and diabetes. Fatty liver often presents without symptoms, but advanced stages may involve abdominal pain, easy bruising, weight loss, fatigue, jaundice, and dark urine.
- Prevention strategies include limiting saturated and trans fats, balancing fruit, protein, and fiber intake, reducing refined carbohydrates, maintaining a healthy weight, regular exercise, and limiting or avoiding alcohol and smoking. Medication is often not the primary solution; lifestyle modifications are more effective.
- Harmful alcohol consumption is defined as 60-80 grams per day for men and over two drinks per day for women. Alcoholic liver disease progresses similarly to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, starting with fatty liver, then alcoholic hepatitis (liver swelling), and eventually cirrhosis.
- Alcoholic liver disease symptoms include fatigue, weight loss, loss of appetite, jaundice, swelling in the ankles, and confusion. Cirrhosis is an irreversible condition characterized by distorted liver architecture, potentially leading to complications like ascites, bleeding, and encephalopathy.
- Liver cancer is the end-stage of liver disease, with abnormal hepatic cells turning cancerous. Treatment for alcoholic liver disease primarily involves abstinence from alcohol, nutritional improvements, and, in severe cases, liver transplantation.
- Liver transplantation replaces the diseased liver with a part or whole liver from a donor, either from a deceased donor (DDLT) or a living donor (LDLT). Liver transplantation is a curative treatment for patients who have reached the point of liver failure.
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À propos des intervenants
Dr Uday Sanglodkar
Senior Consultant of Hepatology and Liver Transplant Global Hospital, Mumbai
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