Liu is responsible for the leadership of the reception of an organ, almost every day, dining out with guests, there is inevitably wine at the table, a good amount of wine each time the Director Liu drunk to let subordinates sent home. Even at home, the Director of the habit of drinking wine will also pour himself two glasses. But these days, Director Liu always feel tired and weak, appetite loss, how to rest can not slow down the energy. In the company of his family, just after the age of Liu came to the hospital for examination, the results are advanced cirrhosis of the liver. 3 taels of wine a day 10 years that cirrhosis Director of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, and Vice President of the Hepatobiliary Hospital, Professor Chen Yazin, said that cirrhosis is a common chronic liver disease, but also the main cause of death in patients with end-stage liver disease. Cirrhosis is classified according to the etiology, such as viral hepatitis cirrhosis, alcoholic cirrhosis, parasitic cirrhosis, biliary cirrhosis, toxic or metabolic cirrhosis, etc. Like Director Liu, it is a typical alcoholic cirrhosis. Some information shows that for each gram of ethanol equivalent to 2 ml of white wine (calculated at about 50 degrees), 10 ml of wine (calculated at about 10 degrees) or 25 ml of beer (calculated at about 4 degrees), if the daily intake of ethanol is more than 80 grams, which is about 3 taels of white wine per day for more than 10 years, it is possible to cause alcoholic cirrhosis. It is not at all surprising that Director Liu, such a heavy drinker, develops cirrhosis of the liver when he is over 40 years old. Cirrhosis – the first culprit of death from benign liver disease Director Chen Yajin introduced, in addition to alcoholic cirrhosis, cirrhosis caused by viral hepatitis (especially hepatitis B) in China is also very common. At present, there are about 120 million people infected with hepatitis B virus in China, and in southern China, the proportion of hepatitis B virus infected people is even higher, and about 3% of hepatitis B patients will eventually develop cirrhosis, which is currently the first culprit of death caused by benign liver disease. Early cirrhosis is asymptomatic In fact, a significant proportion of patients with cirrhosis can have no symptoms, and they live and work like normal people, and usually find out they have cirrhosis only inadvertently when they are examined for other diseases. This is because the liver has a strong compensatory and regenerative capacity, and patients will only develop serious symptoms when they reach the decompensated stage of cirrhosis. Take Director Liu for example, while waiting for a liver transplant, he suffered from the decompensated stage of cirrhosis and became jaundiced many times, and had so much ascites that it affected his breathing, and doctors had to pump his ascites frequently, pumping out several liters of yellow fluid each time. Prevention of cirrhosis, starting with the cause of the disease There are many people who talk about “cirrhosis” and think that suffering from cirrhosis means that life is about to come to an end. This is because cirrhosis is incurable, prolonged and lethal. Cirrhosis consumes patients’ financial resources year after year, and patients have a strong desire to get rid of the disease, thus opening the door to the market for various so-called “miracle doctors” and “miracle drugs”. Director Chen Yazin explained that the harm of cirrhosis can be reduced by early detection and treatment and active prevention of further aggravation of cirrhosis, as long as the causes of cirrhosis and the law of progression are addressed. Regular life, quit smoking and drinking, avoid taking drugs that are damaging to the liver, and take anti-hepatitis B virus drugs regularly to inhibit the activity of the hepatitis B virus are all good ways to prevent cirrhosis. For many patients concerned about Chinese medicine liver protection, Director Chen said, Chinese medicine liver protection has certain curative effect, but must consult with the regular hospital doctors, choose the right evidence, and no adverse reactions to the liver Chinese medicine. In addition, regular checkups are also very important. It is best for hepatitis B patients and hepatitis B virus carriers to have a hepatitis B virus test, liver function, AFP (alpha-fetoprotein, a tumor marker) quantification and ultrasound examination every six months, and if necessary, MRI or CT and gastroscopy to assess the activity status of hepatitis B virus and liver function compensation. In the past 20 years, the development and maturation of liver transplantation technology has brought a boon to patients with cirrhosis in its decompensated stage and combined with liver failure. Due to the irreversible nature of cirrhosis, liver transplantation can be considered a radical treatment with a surgical survival rate of over 90% and a 5-year survival rate of over 80%.