Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The skin manifestations liver disease vigilance

Skin the following symptoms, Liver disease should be a high degree of vigilance and timely medical treatment diagnosis and treatment. 1. Jaundice. Liver disease is the most common skin manifestations. When reduced liver function, biliary - metabolism disorders, resulting in the accumulation of bilirubin in the blood and deposited in the skin, mucous membrane and other places, caused jaundice; bile bile salt stimulated skin, can be accompanied by skin itching. Jaundice is common in acute hepatitis, severe hepatitis. 2. Liver disease face. Chronic hepatitis, patients with cirrhosis, liver cholesterol ester production capacity decline, cholesteryl ester synthesis of adrenal cortical hormones for the raw material, would cause cholesteryl ester inadequate secretion of glucocorticoids reduced, endocrine dysfunction, not antagonistic pituitary secretion melanoma, resulting in facial pigmentation , a dark complexion is characteristic of "liver" face. 3. and liver palms. The so-called , I mean face, neck and chest on a bright red mole, a center red spots around tiny blood vessels, the shape of spiders foot; liver palms refers to the hand and fingers on both sides of the peripheral edge of the belly that was red porphyritic. Originally, the lower liver function, the liver processing capacity decreased estrogen inactivation, leading to the relative increase in estrogen, estrogen can diastolic peripheral arteries, and liver palmar skin is the result of small blood vessels dilated. More common in chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis. 4. Subcutaneous hemorrhage. Severe hepatitis, acute hepatic necrosis, there will be the subcutaneous deposition, purpura, hematoma, and some also occurred epistaxis, gingival bleeding, as the large necrotic liver cells, the synthetic promote coagulation factor and the ability of platelet decline, caused the body coagulation disorder result subcutaneous hemorrhage. 5. Rash. Hepatitis latency or early acute hepatitis can cause skin allergy, a disease papules, urticaria, vascular nerve edema. 6. Abdominal varices. That tension shiny abdominal skin, umbilical vein around processes expansion, the shape of earthworms. Commonly found in liver cirrhosis, hypersplenism. Multiple sclerosis because of the liver, fibrous tissue hyperplasia, texture stiffen, leading to hepatic portal vein compression, the lower the flexibility to return to the abdominal wall hepatic portal venous congestion expansion.

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