Cirrhosis of Liver
Journal Title: Community and Public Health Nursing - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 3
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.
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B. Venkatesan
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