What are the complications of liver cirrhosis? Cirrhosis can be divided into two categories, one is caused by schistosomes called schistosomal cirrhosis, and the other is caused by hepatitis called hepatitis cirrhosis, and it is often hepatitis cirrhosis that causes serious complications in our clinic. So let’s focus on the complications caused by hepatitis cirrhosis. We all understand that as the degree of cirrhosis continues to increase, it leads to a continuous increase in portal vein pressure and eventually portal hypertension. Once hepatitis cirrhosis with portal hypertension is formed, the following complications often occur: 1. Patients with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage can manifest as a large amount of vomiting blood, and patients can form hemorrhagic shock due to blood loss in the short term. The bleeding is often not easy to stop by itself because of the impairment of liver function, which makes the synthesis of prothrombin impaired, and hypersplenism, which makes platelet reduction. 2.Splenomegaly and hypersplenism All patients with hepatitis cirrhosis have different degrees of splenomegaly, even forming a giant spleen that can be touched at the navel. Splenomegaly accompanied by hypersplenism may have a significant decrease in the number of white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia. About 30% of patients with hepatitis cirrhosis have peritoneal fluid, because liver function damage can cause a significant decrease in the ability of the liver to synthesize albumin, resulting in a significant decrease in plasma albumin, a significant decrease in intravascular colloid osmotic pressure, plus portal hypertension resulting in a large amount of lymphatic fluid leakage into the abdominal cavity, all resulting in the formation of large amounts of ascites. Cirrhotic decompensated ascites tends not to subside easily.