ADMS 3502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Portal Vein, Portal Hypertension, Antimineralocorticoid

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 3502
• Professor: Cristobal Sanchez- Rodriguez

Document Summary

, antithyroid drug (thought liver in stage of excess alcohol was hyper metabolic, making patient hypothyroid might help) still looking for drugs to help patients. People who drink coffee 2-4 cups a day have less liver disease. Most of these complications come from pathophysiologic change leading to portal hypertension, portal vein of which of the blood supply to the liver which takes about. Some of those changes may be due to no, a vasodilator. Accumulataion of increased pressure since blood not getting to liver, then increased no which also dilates those vessels, which allows fluid to lead into peritoneum no is trying to compensate but ends up in the wrong way. More prone to bleeding due to low platelets, clotting factors not made to normal level, prothrombin or inr time elevated ,engorged vessels that are easy to rupture also happen in the stomach.