Liver disease

[dr_tears]

Liver Disease
Definition;
Any disease or disorder that causes the liver to function improperly or cease functioning. This can often be detected by abnormal liver function tests.
1-liver abscess
2-liver cancer
3-liver disease due to alcohol
4-cirrhosis
5-amebic liver abscess
6-autoimmune hepatitis
7-biliary atresia
8-coccidioidomycosis; disseminated
9-delta agent (Hepatitis D)
10-hemochromatosis
11-Hepatitis A
12-Hepatitis B
13-Hepatitis C
14-hepatocellular carcinoma
15-primary biliary cirrhosis
16-pyogenic liver abscess
17-Reye’s syndrome
18-sclerosing cholangitis
19-Wilson disease
20-drug induced hepatotoxicity
21-fulminant or acute liver failure

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DR,...Tears

[dr_messo]

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[dr_hani]

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[Dr.Strawberry]

Hepatitis B

What is Hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is a virus which causes an inflammation of the liver. It used to be called Serum Hepatitis.

The virus is found in the body fluids (blood, semen, vaginal secretions) of an infected person.

It is spread by:

contact with infected body fluids, though broken skin
sexual contact
sharing needles and syringes
from an infected mother to her baby
What are the symptoms?
Most children and half of the adults infected with Hepatitis B virus have no symptoms. When symptoms occur they could range from mild to severe.

Symptoms may include:

feeling tired and unwell
fever
loss of appetite
nausea and vomiting
muscle and joint pain
headache
yellowing of the skin and eyes
What treatment is available?
There is no treatment. Of people infected with the virus, 90% will recover, 1% will die and 9% will not be sick, but will continue to carry the virus. These people can infect others with the virus.


Protection:
limit the number of sexual partners ????!!!!!
don't share needles and syringes
don't use other peoples toothbrushes, razors, nailfiles
be vaccinated
What is Hepatitis B Vaccine?
The vaccine is given in a series of 3 injections over 6 months. The Ontario Ministry of Health provides free vaccine to certain high risk groups including:
household and sexual contacts of acute cases and carriers
people with multiple sexual partners who are clients of STD clinics
injectable drug users
those who receive a needle stick injury (provided by the employer if you work in a health care setting)
newborn babies born to carrier mothers
grade 7 students through the Hepatitis B school immunization program




HIV /HBV-coinfection..
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hiv_hbv_co_inf.html


Alternative Medications May Help Prevent or Delay Onset of Liver Scar Tissue in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis
Now that the basic process of how the liver lays down scar tissue is known, research can be done to determine if different compounds can stop the liver from developing scar tissue. Vitamin E supplements were found to be effective in diminishing the amount of liver scar tissue that developed in rats exposed to a poison that causes cirrhosis. Silymarin, which is the active component of milk thistle was studied in 1989 in patients with liver cirrhosis secondary to alcohol and found to be beneficial. The Japanese compound sho-saiko-to also known as TJ-9, which is a mixture of different herbal products, has been found to reduce scar tissue in rats with cirrhosis by 25%. In addition, it appears to have anti-tumor effects, decreasing the risk of cancer. As the knowledge about liver injury increases, we will likely find more traditional and alternative medical products that may prevent or improve cirrhosis in patients with chronic liver disease.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine
for Chronic Liver Disease
Leonard B. Seeff, MD, from the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, gave a report on the recent NIH Symposium focusing on the issue of botanical preparations and herbal preparations available to treat chronic liver diseases. He spoke at the postgraduate course in Dallas held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD).

Dr. Seeff presented data showing that most patients with chronic liver disease use some type of alternative medicine products and that "conventional" Western science needs to examine these products to find out which ones are effective and helpful and which ones may be harmful. He pointed out some herbal products that appeared to be beneficial and deserve further study.

Some of the potentially beneficial herbal products listed by Dr Seeff included milk thistle and sho-saiko-to (TJ-9) as mentioned above. In addition, he noted that Glycyrrhizin (licorice root extract), a product used in Japan for the treatment of hepatitis, appears to have anti-inflammatory properties and improves ALT levels when given intravenously. Some studies have been reported using glycyrrhizin in pill form for the treatment of viral hepatitis. One study gave interferon only or interferon plus glycyrrhizin to patients that had failed to respond to interferon. ALT levels normalized in 33% of those receiving interferon only, but in 64% of those receiving the glycyrrhizin in addition to the interferon. HCV-RNA became undetectable in 38.5% of those receving the herbal product, but in only 13% of those treated with interferon only.

Another interesting product is Compound 861. This is a liquid medicine that contains 10 herbs based on traditional Chinese medicine. This compound appears to be anti-fibrotic (prevents or improves the scar tissue in the liver). A study in China gave this compound to patients with hepatitis B and found improvement in most patients.

The NIH has allocated funds to be used for research related to herbal products. Hopefully we will soon be able to tease out those products that are effective from those who may not help at all or even be harmful.

Regads, Strawberry

[dr_hani]

thx dr.strawberry :)

it is nice to see this co-operation between medical students and really hope to see ur nice posts in this section or in other sections....all for one reason that is general benifit

wishing for u all the best

[alkhial]

dr tears thanx alot for this brief information about this topic

we R really need alot espesially in Medicine:waa: