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The liver is the largest organ of the body that helps your body to store energy, digest food and remove poisons. The liver is just under the rib case of the size of football. It is situated on the right side of the abdomen. There are different kinds of liver disorders usually caused by viruses, such as hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.

It can also cause drug abuse, poisons, and excessive consumption alcohol. The category includes cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, Inherited diseases like hemochromatosis and Wilson disease.

In Liver Disease usually, symptoms occur like swelling in the abdominal area and legs, easy bruising, color change in stool and urine, symptoms of jaundice. Sometimes it shows no symptoms. The condition can be inherited or caused due to various reasons like liver damage. Obesity is also contributing to the condition.

Damage to the liver results in scarring known as cirrhosis that may cause liver failure, a life-threatening event.

Causes of Liver Disease

The liver can be damaged due to many reasons and there are other causes for liver disorder as mentioned below:

  • Infection:  Some harmful bacteria and viruses can infect the liver. It may show inflammation and disturb the functioning. Common types of liver infection categorize as hepatitis viruses, such as: Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C
  • Immune system abnormality: When your immune system attacks parts of your body can affect your liver like autoimmune Liver Disease. These are like, autoimmune hepatitis primary biliary cirrhosis primary sclerosing cholangitis
  • Genetics:  Due to abnormal gene inherited from parents can cause harmful substances to build up in the liver, leading the damage of the liver. Genetic Liver Disease are like hemochromatosis, hyperoxaluria, oxalosis Wilson’s disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, cancer, and other growths
  • Chronic alcohol abuse: Excessive consumption of alcohol may accumulate fats in the liver

Diagnosis of Liver Disease

  • Health history
  • Physical examination
  • Blood tests
  • Imaging tests
  • Tissue analysis

Symptoms of Liver Disease

  • Yellowish skin and eyes that
  • Swelling or abdominal pain
  • Swelling especially in the legs or ankles
  • Itching
  • Color changes in the urine
  • Color changes in the stool
  • Starry or bloody stool
  • Fatigue
  • Severe nausea or vomiting
  • Appetite changes
  • Easy bruising or bleeding

Treatment

Entecavir is an active component used in the treatment of liver disease. Bristol Myers Squibb, a trusted Pharmaceutical company that offers a popular brand medicine Baraclude. It belongs to a class of drugs known as nucleoside analogs. It reduces the amount of hepatitis B virus in the body. This drug does not cure HBV and may not prevent complications of chronic hepatitis B such as cirrhosis of the liver or liver cancer.

Epclusa is a popular brand medication used in the treatment of above condition. Sofosbuvir-Velpatasvir is a combination of two active components. Gilead Sciences, is a leading pharmaceutical company that manufactures this medicine. It acts by lowering the amount of hepatitis C virus in the body. It helps the liver to recover.

Sovaldi, is a popular medicine that help to treat liver disease. Sofosbuvir is an active ingredient used in the medication, which is manufactured by the growing pharmaceutical company, Gilead Sciences.

It hampers the enzyme RNA polymerase – the cellular worker that helps in the replication process. This drug makes unable to make new viruse, this existing Hepatitis C viruses needed an immune system of the person with the infection.

Tenofovir Alafenamide is a main active component used in the popular brand medicine. Gilead Sciences, Inc is a well-known pharmaceutical company that manufactures Vemlidy. It belongs to a class of HIV drugs known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. It blocks reverse transcriptase that prevents HIV from multiplying and can decrease the amount of HIV in the body.

Viread is a popular brand medicine used to treat liver disease. Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate is an active ingredient used in this medicine. It is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor. It is also called a hepatitis B virus reverse transcriptase inhibitor.