MEDRADSC 2I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aorta, Carcinoma, Liver Cancer
20 Oct 2016
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Treatment- prevention, ppe, vaccines for a and b immunization, personal protective equipment (gloves masks, goggles, gown) Hospital employees need to have the shot. Hep a: direct contact, most common, transmitted to gi tract, oral contact or fecal contact. Hep b: contaminated blood or body fluids, sexual contact. Hep c: common cause of chronic cirrhosis, through feces, Hep d: ingestion of contaminated water with feces. Chronic irreversible destruction of hepatic cells until they (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d are repla(cid:272)ed with fatty tissue. Alcoholism(10-20 yrs abuse), viral hepatitis, hepatotoxic drugs and chemicals, diseases of the bile ducts. Enlargement and then it contracts and becomes stronger, lumpy and nodule. I(cid:374)hi(cid:271)its (cid:271)ody"s a(cid:271)ility to sy(cid:374)thesize protei(cid:374)s-edema and ascites. Jaundice- yellow colour, white of eyes are yellow, edema and fluid. 5 yr survival rate, slow the process with diet/lifestyle/less drinking. A- hazy looki(cid:374)g, (cid:862)grou(cid:374)d glass appeara(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause there are no defined borders, fluid surrounds the liver. B- shows thickness of gall bladder wall, lots of fluid.
