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Liver Cirrhosis
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Also known as: shrunken liver · cirrhosis · liver hardening · liver scarring · chronic liver disease · liver fibrosis · alcoholic cirrhosis · scarred liver · end-stage liver disease · cirrhose
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The liver is the largest internal organ. It filters, detoxifies, stores, transforms — it is the chemical factory of your body, working tirelessly to ensure that you can live. In cirrhosis, this organ gradually loses its structure. Healthy tissue is replaced by scar tissue. What was once soft, well-supplied with blood and alive, hardens — slowly, silently, often unnoticed for years.
Medicine knows the triggers: chronic alcohol consumption, hepatitis, fatty liver diseases. And these triggers are real — they deserve treatment. But BodySignal asks an additional question: What happens in a person's life that an organ standing for transformation and renewal turns to stone piece by piece? What hardens on the inside, long before the liver shows it physically?
Liver cirrhosis is not a sudden event, but the endpoint of a long rigidification.
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