Patient's question:
My uncle is just a person who causes stomach problems. Every day, he only knows how to drink beer and take naps, not caring about anything else. No one can do anything about it. Because he has been drinking beer for a long time, he has developed liver disease. First, it was alcoholic fatty liver disease, then alcoholic hepatitis, and now alcoholic cirrhosis. I don't know if it will get worse.Doctor's answer:
Diffuse liver damage caused by one or more different etiologies over a long period or repeatedly. In our country, the vast majority are post-hepatitis cirrhosis, with a small portion being alcoholic cirrhosis and schistosomiasis cirrhosis. Symptoms include mild fatigue, abdominal pain, mild hepatosplenomegaly, mild jaundice, liver palm, and spider angiomas. Imaging, biochemical, or blood tests show evidence of impaired hepatocyte function or portal hypertension (such as splenomegaly and esophageal-gastric varices), or histology confirms cirrhosis. There are many treatment methods for alcoholic liver disease, but because the patient's condition varies, the diagnostic methods used also differ. Therefore, it is necessary to diagnose the patient as soon as possible so that the treatment can be tailored to the specific condition.