Tuesday, March 18, 2008

What alcoholic hepatitis clinical performance?

Alcoholic hepatitis can be no early symptoms, but have pathological changes of the liver, often prior
to the onset of a large number of short-term drinking history, with a clear weight loss, loss of
appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue and general malaise, fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea, upper
gastrointestinal bleeding and mental symptoms. There are signs of jaundice, and hepatomegaly and
tenderness, while splenomegaly and looking, gray, ascites and swelling Zhizhuzhi, esophageal varices.
From the laboratory inspection, anemia and neutrophils increased, the volume of red blood cells (MCV),
more than 95 FL, increased serum bilirubin, up 17.1 μ moL / L or more, moderately elevated
aminotransferase, and often greater than 2.0, Determination of mitochondrial AST (mAST) and with the
AST (tAST), the ratio of its increased up to 12.5 +5.2%. And γ-GT, glutamate dehydrogenase, and
alkaline phosphatase activity increased prothrombin time extension.

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