Viral hepatitis - very hard diseases. However, timely and proper treatment is able to extend the life of patients for years. What is behind the terrible words «coma», «cirrhosis»? What threatens these states? The article in an affordable form introduces the main complications of hepatitis.
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Complications of viral hepatitis can be diseases of the biliary tract and liver coma, and if the disruption of the work of biliary tract is to be treated, the liver coma is a formidable sign of the lightning form of hepatitis, ending with a fatal outcome of almost 90% of cases. In 80% of cases, the lightning flow is due to the combined effect of hepatitis V and D viruses.
The liver coma comes due to massive necrosis (death) liver cells. The disintegration of liver cells fall into the blood, causing the lesion of the central nervous system and the extinction of all life functions.
Recovery after transferred viral hepatitis long. Often the disease acquires protracted forms. Some patients infected with the hepatitis B, C and D virus are not ill, but, being media, are dangerous in terms of infection. A very unfavorable outcome of acute hepatitis is its transition to a chronic stage mainly when hepatitis with.
Chronic hepatitis is dangerous in that the lack of adequate treatment often leads to cirrhosis, and sometimes to liver cancer. In this regard, the most severe disease doctors consider hepatitis C: in 70-80% of cases, its acute form goes into chronic, although the external signs of the disease may not be. Moreover, most patients with acute hepatitis C has a phenomenon «Imaginary recovery», in which data from biochemical blood tests come to normal. This phenomenon lasts from several weeks to several months and even years, and this period patients may be mistaken for recovery. This dictates the need for a long and regular observation of patients and compulsory conducting specific therapy.
But the most difficult course of hepatitis causes a combination of two or more viruses, for example B and D or B and with. Even b + d + c occurs. In this case, the forecast is extremely unfavorable. Often, signs of chronic viral hepatitis are poorly pronounced, which allows a person for the time being not to pay attention to the disease. Often, obvious clinical manifestations of the disease are found already at the stage of cirrhosis.
Cirrhosis occurs approximately 20% of viral hepatitis patients with. To this complication may also lead hepatitis B in combination with hepatitis D or without it. Cirrhosis creates obstacles for normal blood flow in the liver. Blood is forced to look for additional workarounds, which leads to the expansion of blood vessels of the esophagus and stomach. These extended blood vessels are called varicose veins, they stretch and can become a source of bleeding, which requires emergency medical care.
Another problem associated with the development of the liver cirrhosis - ascites (cluster of fluid in the abdominal cavity), which externally manifests itself with an increase in abdomen in size. Sometimes patients with cirrhosis develops liver cancer, which in the early stages can be treated with drugs or operational. If the liver cirrhosis has been formed, it is impossible to be eliminated, even if the inflammation of the liver passed. That is why the treatment of viral hepatitis needs to start as early as possible.
