Complications Of Hepatitis B. One in three patients with chronic hepatitis B who are not under going treatment can experience complications serious liver disease.
Hepatitis B and Cirrhosis Complications
Cirrhosis is the formation of scar tissue in the liver. Scar tissue is a network formed after the liver cells are initially normal, injured or sustained inflammation. In liver cirrhosis, affected their cells have undergone changes so that it can no longer perform its function properly. This change happened gradually within the next years.
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The disease strikes about 20 percent of people with chronic hepatitis B. Symptoms of cirrhosis is usually undetected and often unconscious sufferer of severe damage to the liver. Severe cirrhosis can trigger symptoms such as nausea, weight decrease, easily fatigued, hives on the skin and swelling in the abdomen and ankles.
Consumption of alcoholic beverages should be avoided because it can accelerate and worsen the cirrhosis.
The development of this complication can be inhibited by specific treatment steps, for example with antiviral drugs. But there are some survivors who were forced to undergo a liver transplant.
Complications of hepatitis B and liver cancer
Chronic hepatitis B will develop into liver cancer is estimated at 10 percent. Symptoms in these complications include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, weight loss, and jaundice (the skin and the whites of the eyes are yellow).
Complications of hepatitis B and Hepatitis B Fulminan
Fulminan hepatitis B occurs when the immune system becomes confused and began attacking the liver causing severe damage. Some of the symptoms that indicate the condition of the patient is to be dazed or confused, the stomach was bloated, and jaundice.
Hepatitis B fulminan is indeed rare and generally caused by acute hepatitis B. But these complications can also occur in people with chronic hepatitis B adult.
Hepatitis B fulminan requires emergency medical treatment. The number of people with hepatitis B fulminan who dies is estimated at 70 percent.
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