what types of blood disorders/complications could arise for a person who has liver disease?

Question by superman: what types of blood disorders/complications could arise for a person who has liver disease?
i was curious about this. could you please explain


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Answer by abijann
When the cells of the liver die off, scar tissue
forms inside the liver that blocks the flow
of blood via the liver on its way back to
the heart and also, to the other liver cells and
they continue to die off.

All blood from the abdominal location, such as
the intestines, goes to the liver by way of the
Portal Vein. Now, the blood is blocked,
so it backs up into this vein and causes pressure,
recognized as Portal Hypertension. It also backs
up into smaller vessels not utilized to handling
this quantity of blood, identified as Varies
(varicose veins). They are normally discovered
in the esophagus, rectal, and belly button
areas. These vessels can have weak
spots and balloon outward in places and
break open. It is a really severe emergency
as the patient can bleed out totally or
bleed internally. This bleeding is mostly
stopped by a endoscopic process where
they band them...some thing like placing
a rubber band over the tip of your finger.

The blood can also back up into the Spleen
and trigger the spleen to enlarge in size.
The spleen can then trap the Platelets in
it and the liver patient will show a decrease
of platelets on their blood tests outcomes.

The liver isn't able to make the clotting
aspects efficiently anymore or almost not at all.
These assist the blood to clot...so a decrease
in them can trigger a patient to quickly bleed
and bruise.

Some patients are placed on steriods for
their liver troubles and even right after the
transplant operations. These steriods can
have an effect that deplete bone mass...
recognized as osteopenia. Occasionally it
can effect the production of the red
blood cells and the patient may have to
be placed on Procrit or Epogen, etc. to
attempt and raise the amount of erythropoeitin
in the bone marrow to generate a lot more.

All liver patients are at a greater risk of
cancer, including lymphoma.

Transplant patients are on immune suppressive
drugs. Their white cells counts have to remain
within certain levels so they don't fight off
the new organ. However, some of the
transplant drugs and intravenous medications have a known effect of decreasing the white cells to dangerous levels. These can be brought
back up with the use of products like
Neupogen.

A Transplant patient is watched extremely closely
to the effects of any drugs taken and
changing are made to be certain of their
survival.

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