Classification of liver disease

Question 1

What are the two classifiactions of liver disease?

Answer 1

Acute or chronic

Question 2

What is the duration of acute liver disease?

Answer 2

Less than 6 months duration

Question 3

How does acute liver disease often resolve?

Answer 3

Often resolves spontaneously and is self-limiting

Question 4

What is seed to happen to the liver function during acute disease?

Answer 4

Rapid decline in liver function

Question 5

Symptomatic or asymptomatic?

Answer 5

Can be both

Question 6

What is acute liver disease associated with?

Answer 6

100% association with encephalopathy (brain disease, damage or malfunction) and coagulopathy (bleeding disorder)

Question 7

What is acute liver disease not associated with?

Answer 7

Jaundice disease.

Question 8

What can acute liver disease result in?

Answer 8

Acute liver failure

Question 9

What is the time scale of Chronic Liver disease?

Answer 9

Duration of over 6 months

Question 10

Sympotmatic or asympomatic?

Answer 10

Mostly symptomatic

Question 11

What are the results of chronic liver disease?

Answer 11

Permanent structural change, loss of normal liver architecture and cirrhosis

Question 12

What is liver cirrhosis

Answer 12

Fibrous scars, with the liver divided into nodules. Can eventually lead to liver failure and can be fatal.

Question 13

What is chronic liver disease secondary to?

Answer 13

Long standing cell damage