| Liver disease related to alcohol consumption fits into | | | | outside the liver become inflamed and scarred, and |
| one of three categories fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, or | | | | over time the ducts become blocked. The ducts are |
| cirrhosis. Fatty liver, which occurs after acute alcohol | | | | important because they carry bile (a liquid that helps |
| ingestion, is generally reversible with abstinence and is | | | | break down fats in food) out of the liver. If the ducts |
| not believed to incline to any chronic form of liver | | | | become blocked, bile builds up in the liver and damages |
| disease if abstinence or moderation is maintained. | | | | liver cells. Eventually, PSC can cause liver failure and |
| Alcoholic hepatitis is an acute form of alcohol-induced | | | | cirrhosis. |
| liver injury that occurs with the consumption of a large | | | | • Chronic Hepatitis: - Chronic Hepatitis is |
| quantity of alcohol over a prolonged period of time; it | | | | ongoing injury to the cells of the liver with inflammation |
| encompasses a spectrum of severity ranging from | | | | which lasts for longer than six months. The causes of |
| asymptomatic derangement of biochemistries to | | | | chronic hepatitis are several: viruses, metabolic or |
| fulminate liver failure and death. | | | | immunologic abnormalities and medications. |
| Type of Liver Diseases: - | | | | • Liver Cirrhosis is a severe kind of liver |
| • Alcoholic Liver Disease: - Alcoholic hepatitis | | | | disorder which is caused due to Cirrhosis or Hepatitis |
| is inflSammation of the liver (hepatitis), usually from | | | | C virus. The term Cirrhosis means the liver is damaged |
| long-term alcohol use that causes widespread liver | | | | so severely that its normal shape is distorted. The |
| damage and destruction. The effects of alcohol vary | | | | term also means that there is an increase in scar |
| among individuals. You don't have to be an alcoholic to | | | | tissue in the liver and the liver mass is reduced. The |
| develop alcoholic hepatitis. Alcoholic hepatitis may also | | | | main causes behind this disorder include long-term, |
| occur in moderate drinkers or after a single episode of | | | | excessive alcohol consumption; inherited disorders of |
| binge drinking. | | | | iron and copper metabolism; severe reactions to |
| • Fatty Liver Diseases: - Fatty liver is the | | | | certain medications; chronic infection with hepatitis B |
| accumulation of fat in liver cells. Simple fatty liver is not | | | | virus; repeated episodes of heart failure with liver |
| a disease, since it does not damage the liver, but is a | | | | congestion and bile-duct obstruction; etc. |
| condition that can be identified by taking a sample of | | | | Risk factors for liver disease include: |
| liver tissue (liver biopsy) and examining it under a | | | | • Abdominal trauma |
| microscope. Another term often used to describe this | | | | • Various congenital disorders |
| condition is fatty infiltration of the liver. | | | | • Primary biliary cirrhosis |
| • Biliary Diseases: - Primary sclerosing | | | | • Autoimmune disease. |
| cholangitis is a disease where the bile ducts inside and | | | | |