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Provides information on liver diseases and liver-related conditions such as liver cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, gallbladder disease, hemochromatosis, porphyria and Wilson disease. Provides information on the signs and symptoms, risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, support, and treatment.
Although liver disease is stereotypically linked to alcohol or drugs, the truth is that there are over 100 known forms of liver disease caused by a variety of factors and affecting everyone from infants to older adults.
Source: Canadian Liver Foundation
Cirrhosis is a condition that results from permanent damage or scarring of the liver. This leads to a blockage of blood flow through the liver and prevents normal metabolic and regulatory processes.
Source: Canadian Liver Foundation
A fatty liver is the result of the accumulation of excess fat in liver cells. Fatty tissue slowly builds up in the liver when a person's diet exceeds the amount of fat his or her body can handle. A person has a fatty liver when fat makes up at least 5-10% of the liver.
Source: Canadian Liver Foundation
Gallstones are hard stones made of cholesterol and other substances that form in the gallbladder, a small sac located just under the liver. They also can develop in the common bile duct, the tube that carries bile from the gallbladder and the liver to the small intestine.
Source: Government of British Columbia - Ministry of Health Services
Gallstones are solid lumps of cholesterol crystals or pigment material that form in the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a pouch that sits beneath the liver and stores bile, which is a greeny-yellow fluid produced by the liver. With a meal, the gallbladder releases bile into the small intestine where it helps to digest fats.
Source: Canadian Liver Foundation
Gallstones are pieces of solid material that form in the gallbladder. They may be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. The gallbladder may develop a single, often large, stone or many smaller ones.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
This guide is designed to serve as an introduction to the clinical condition called porphyria. The general concepts of this disease will be presented and then a more detailed description of each clinical entity will follow.
Source: Canadian Porphyria Foundation
Hemochromatosis is an inherited disease in which the body absorbs too much iron from the diet. Hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic diseases in Canada affecting 1 in 327 Canadians. Normally, only enough iron to meet the body's daily requirements is absorbed; the remainder is usually excreted through the bowels. In hemochromatosis, however, iron continues to be absorbed and stored in different organs and tissues long after body needs are met.
Source: Canadian Liver Foundation
Porphyrins are chemical compounds that are stepping stones along the pathway which leads to the formation of heme in humans and to chlorophyll in plants. They are responsible for the fact that blood is red and grass is green. Heme is essential if the body is to work properly. In porphyria, the cells do not convert porphyrins to heme in a normal manner.
Source: Canadian Liver Foundation
Wilson disease is a hereditary disease in which excessive amounts of copper accumulate in the body. The disease affects approximately one in every 30,000 Canadians. Small amounts of copper are essential to good health, but the inability of the body, and especially the liver, to release excessive amounts results in accumulation of copper in several organs. This overload of copper has a toxic effect on these organs. The liver is the main organ to store copper and when its storage capacity is exhausted, copper accumulates in the brain and the cornea of the eye.
Source: Canadian Liver Foundation
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