Treatment And Prognostic Assessment Of Liver Cirrhosis And Its Complications

Download or read book Treatment and Prognostic Assessment of Liver Cirrhosis and Its Complications written by Xingshun Qi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 2 million deaths worldwide annually are attributable to liver diseases. Among them, half die from cirrhosis and the other half from viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. When patients with liver cirrhosis develop to the decompensated stage, a variety of complications will occur, such as ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, variceal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, and jaundice, which will seriously affect the patient's quality of life with reduced survival time and increased socioeconomic burden. Therefore, early assessment and clinical management of cirrhosis and its complications are crucial for both clinicians and patients.