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Fatty Liver: Causes, Symptoms, and Diagnosis

 Our liver is one of the largest organs in our body . Liver is essential for digestion of food and elimination of toxins from our body. There are many diseases that affect the functioning of our liver, fatty liver is a one common condition of liver.

Fatty liver advanced disease is also known as hepatic steatosis, when you have fatty liver condition it means you have extra fat stored in your liver, for a liver to be considered fatty liver the amount of fat stored in liver should be above 5%.

Usually a chronic alcohol consumption lead to alcoholic fatty liver while in case of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) is caused by number of health conditions and factors, for proper treatment of fatty liver in Delhi consult with best gastro surgeon in Delhi.

Types of Fatty Liver Disease

There are three types of fatty liver disease

• Non-alcoholic fatty liver(NAFLD): a simple fatty liver disease which means you have fat stored in your liver, while this storage of fat doesn’t mean that they damaged  liver cells or liver inflammation, a non-alcoholic fatty liver may not cause any complications but it's difficult to predict whether it will turn into a liver damage or not, meanwhile prevention can save you from advanced stages of NAFLD. This condition is usually associated with other health factors like obesity, diabetes or in some cases heart or kidney disease as well.

• Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH): this condition is advanced stage of a simple non-alcoholic fatty liver disease which involves large amount of fat accumulation in our liver or liver inflammation. NASH often turns into fibrosis (cirrhosis) of liver which means scarring of liver tissues which also cause swelling around the liver. In case of liver condition like NASH symptoms may stay silent for years as they are usually visible in later stages. Conditions like obesity, diabetes or pre-diabetes are major contributor to NASH.

• Alcoholic fatty liver: this condition is a result of chronic alcohol abuse; once you stop the consumption of alcohol you may stop the further damage to the liver. In case of severe damage to the liver it can cause many health problems which are irreversible and results in liver transplantation. Enlargement of liver one of the symptoms of alcoholic fatty liver which may cause pain in upper abdominal area, an alcoholic fatty liver may also result in cirrhosis of liver

Treatment of fatty liver in Delhi

Serious conditions of fatty liver like non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and alcoholic fatty liver require immediate treatment from gastro surgeon , while mostly people chose to ignore the treatment of simple fatty liver but prevention is necessary it may turn into liver cirrhosis over the year without showing its symptoms first.

• In case of alcoholic liver damage you should stop the alcohol consumption immediately

• In case of advance stages of fatty liver like liver cirrhosis or liver cancer your gastro surgeon may suggest liver transplant.

• Your doctor may suggest some medication and lifestyle changes to stop the further damage

For the treatment of fatty liver in Delhi you should get consultation from one of the best  gastro surgeon in Delhi Dr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, he is best liver specialist in Delhi. Currently, working in Manipal super speciality hospital, Dwarka




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