Cirrhosis is a common chronic liver disease, which can cause liver damage by one or more reasons. The liver is progressive, diffuse and fibrous. It should be noted here that although cirrhosis is very common, cirrhosis itself is a manifestation of advanced liver disease and a serious liver disease. Cirrhosis is often caused by the transformation and deterioration of other more common and easily overlooked diseases. For example, chronic viral hepatitis and chronic alcoholism are the main causes of liver cirrhosis.
Since the occurrence of liver cirrhosis has not been prevented, it is necessary to prevent the development of liver cirrhosis, seize the opportunity of treatment and actively treat it. Most patients with liver cirrhosis can get a higher quality of life and live more than ten years or decades.
Cirrhosis patients with cirrhosis can be divided into compensatory stage and decompensated stage. The compensatory period indicates that the condition is relatively stable, and the decompensated period indicates that the condition is heavier and worse.
Compensation means that the liver can still meet the functional needs of the body without relying on drugs or other support means (for example, 100 people are working, and now 20 people are sick, so the workload of 100 people should be completed by the remaining 80 people, although a little tired, but it can still be done well), so the general liver function has not changed significantly, and it can be like a normal person. If the liver functions normally, it will supply enough energy to the human body, which will make people energetic, competent for heavy work and bear the burden of life.
Some patients with liver cirrhosis, with stable liver function, can still bear the energy consumption of basic life and work, which is the compensatory period. There is not much difference in working ability and intensity between patients with compensated cirrhosis and normal people. If patients with compensated liver cirrhosis stop developing after treatment, their liver function remains normal and HBV replication index is negative, they can live 70-80 years, which is the best state of liver cirrhosis and can work normally.
Decompensation refers to the excess capacity of the liver itself, which can no longer solve and undertake various tasks, and must rely on drugs and "foreign aid" to maintain normal function. Liver function is characterized by abnormal transaminase and bilirubin. If the liver function is abnormal and can't bear the energy consumption of work and life, this is decompensation. Of course, the degree varies greatly. In patients with decompensated cirrhosis, if there are complications such as ascites and upper gastrointestinal bleeding, it indicates that cirrhosis has entered the middle and late stage. At this time, various complications followed. Before the complications are solved, you can't work, and you can only do some light work after treatment.
If the patients with decompensated cirrhosis are not treated, about 70~80% will die in five years, but active treatment, including traditional Chinese medicine against liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, antivirus, bleeding prevention, liver protection and liver transplantation, can greatly improve the survival time of patients.
Therefore, the question of how long liver cirrhosis can live mainly depends on the physical condition of patients with liver cirrhosis and whether the correct treatment measures have been taken at various stages of liver cirrhosis.
So what is the best treatment for liver cirrhosis at present? Besides liver transplantation, the second method is DNA liver reconstruction, which is recognized by patients as the second ultimate method to treat liver cirrhosis. Compared with liver transplantation, it has the advantages of low cost, no side effects, no recurrence and good long-term effect, and gives patients a second life.