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Community and Public Health Nursing

Volume  2, Issue 3, Sep-Dec 2017, Pages 189-195
 

Case Report

Cirrhosis of Liver

B. Venkatesan

Associate Professor, Professor cum HOD of Medical Surgical Nursing, Padmashree Institute of Nursing, Bangalore, Karnataka 560072, India and PhD Scholar in Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600116, India.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/cphn.2455.8621.2317.5

Abstract

Liver is vulnerable to a wide variety of metabolic, toxic, microbial and circulatory insults. In some instances, the disease is primary while in others the hepatic involvement is secondary to cardiac de-compensation, alcoholism or extrahepatic infections. Quite rightly liver is called as “the custodian of milieu interior. Cirrhosis of liver disease is serious and potentially fatal consequences of most commonly alcohol use. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that 140 million people worldwide suffer from alcohol dependency causing damage to liver and economics. Recent years cirrhosis of liver disease incidence is increasing due change in life style and habit of alcohol consumption in public. The public need to educated about ill effect of alcohol consumption in order to prevent the disease and its complication of disease. Nurses play vital role health care delivery system so nurses need to counsel the patient alcoholic.

 


Keywords : World Health Organization; Cirrhosis of Liver Disease; De-Compensation. 
Corresponding Author : B. Venkatesan, Associate Professor, Professor cum HOD of Medical Surgical Nursing, Padmashree Institute of Nursing, Bangalore, Karnataka 560072, India