Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis is a clinically common chronic progressive liver disease, which is diffuse liver damage caused by long-term or repeated effects of one or more causes. In the early clinical stage, due to strong liver function compensation, there may be no obvious symptoms; in the later stage, there are multiple system involvements, with liver function damage and portal hypertension as the main manifestations, and gastrointestinal bleeding, liver encephalopathy, secondary infection, Serious complications such as canceration. Cirrhosis is more common in men between 20 and 50 years old in China, and the incidence of young adults is mostly related to viral hepatitis (type B, type C) and certain parasitic infections.

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