How long can you live with ascites in your liver?

The liver has ascites clinically known as hepatic ascites, hepatic ascites is generally not fatal, but reflects the liver function has entered the stage of loss of compensation, the 5-year survival rate of about 50%, if the timely liver transplantation, you can get long-term survival. Hepatic ascites is a pathologic manifestation of ascites formed in the abdominal cavity due to fluid accumulation in the liver cavity caused by liver-derived diseases, usually viral hepatitis, alcoholic liver, fatty liver, autoimmune liver disease and other causes of cirrhosis and liver failure. If the primary pathology cannot be effectively controlled, the 5-year survival rate of patients after the emergence of ascites is about 50%; if the conditions for liver transplantation are available, most of the patients can achieve long-term survival. Therefore, the symptoms of hepatic ascites, we should go to the hospital in time, improve the corresponding examination, clear diagnosis, and active treatment.