Saturday, June 7, 2008

Fatty liver and the risk of pathological process

Early fatty liver often no obvious symptoms, patients with more than occasional B-examination found. Mainly for liver steatosis, no fibrosis, liver function quite normal, were "non-clinical progress of fatty liver." This is the best prevention and treatment of fatty liver stage, it is also most likely to be ignored the danger stage. Early fatty liver, if early detection, prompt treatment can be completely back to normal. However, if allowed to develop unchecked, as the Organization of pathological process, liver cells in lipid infiltration of the long-term gradual degeneration and necrosis, early mild fatty liver will be gradually transformed into liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, liver normal metabolic functions or even decline Loss. At this point even if the positive treatment of liver pathology so that it is difficult to change back to normal. Therefore, the risk of fatty liver not only in the latter part of their lives and health of the great dangers, but also in its early asymptomatic concealed. In recent years, with the Chinese diet and living habits of the change, the incidence of fatty liver increasingly has become the second largest after the liver disease hepatitis. Its hazards to human health is also a growing number of show. For fatty liver of a clinical study showed that about 1 / 4 of fatty liver patients have both liver fibrosis, 1.5% -8.0% of patients with cirrhosis. Currently fatty liver has been recognized as the hidden common cause of liver cirrhosis.

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