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Liver atrophy
Is related to a specific underlying disease process: hydatid disease, cholangiocarcinoma, alcoholic cirrhosis, chronic active hepatitis with cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, cryptogenic cirrhosis, pyogenic cholangitis, sclerosing cholangitis, and acute hepatic failure
Symptoms:
- Fatigue.
- Chronic cough.
- Swelling of the ankles and feet.
- Jaundice (this is more commonly associated with cirrhosis)
- Fluid in the abdomen (ascites)
Preliminary plan:
- General practitioner appointment
- Gastroenterologist appointment
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Urinalysis
- Blood test:
- Bilirubin
- Cholesterol
- Urea (BUN)
- Creatinine
- Alanine transaminase (ALT)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)
- Prothrombin ratio (PR) / International normalized ratio (INR)
- Alkaline phosphatase (ALP)
- Total protein
- Albumen
- Glucose
- Abdominal ultrasound: liver, gallbladder, pancreas
- Doppler imaging of internal organs blood vessels
- ECG
Doctors
Gastroenterologist
