It's called alcohol to alcoholic liver disease or liver disease caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Is not a unique clinical picture, but can occur several modes depending on the amount of alcohol consumed, the time that is consumed and individual susceptibility.
Broadly there are three large paintings of liver disease caused by alcohol, from lowest to highest, severity: alcoholic liver steatosis, the hepatitis alcoholic and alcoholic cirrhosis. In many patients are the three consecutively over the years. Alcoholic hepatic steatosis is caused by excessive alcohol intake over a period ranging from weeks and sometimes years. Consists of an accumulation of fat in the liver as a result of metabolic changes produced by alcohol. The patient has no symptoms, laboratory abnormalities course was frequently and does not affect liver function. It is reversible with cessation of alcohol consumption. Some patients, although they continue drinking alcohol do not develop more severe forms of the disease while others develop into the other two tables. The hepatitis alcoholic is a picture of subacute evolution. It is considered to be consumed too much alcohol for at least 5 years in order to develop this picture. It is much more severe steatosis. The patient usually has symptoms; liver test abnormalities are present and affect liver function. The severity is variable. If drinking stops, the disease can be cured, but there are patients who die and others going to the third type of frame. Alcoholic cirrhosis involves the alteration of the structure of the liver by the healing process (fibrosis) Produced in the liver as a result of alcohol consumption in general for many years. Is irreversible. Although some patients are asymptomatic in the early stages of the disease, many symptoms. Laboratory abnormalities occur and liver function deteriorates. Many patients eventually died due to disease.
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