| Alcohol and liver diseases |
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Kwang-Do Koh |
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Department of Gastroenterology, College of Medicine Korea, University. |
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| Abstract |
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Various complex factors including individual variations, sorts of alcoholic beverages, bodily state and manners on drinking as well as material other than alcohol contained in beverages, and quantity and quality of diet play roles in drinking phenomena. Therefore, chronic alcoholic intoxicants have intricate problems. The preceding lesions or conditions not only of the liver but of various organs could exert much influence on the liver. And so the discussions concerning the features of liver damage induced only by alcohol are very hard to make.
In this study, acute alcoholic hepatitis and chronic alcoholic liver damage (fatty liver and liver cirrhosis) which can be produced chiefly by a large amount of drinking over a long period have been selected from a common sense standpoint. However, in this country, at present time, in the patients with chronic liver damage due to viral hepatitis, it is likely that there have been many mixed types to which hepatic damage due to drinking are supposed to add. There are cases of drinking too much for a long time in which the liver diseases are entirely absent while the liver diseases such as fatty liver and fatty liver cirrhosis are noted in a few cases of not drinking at all.
From the above discussions, the fact that liver damage due to alcohol can be determined by whether dietary factors or constitutional factors is to be a subject of further discussion Furthermore, the discussions referring to the problems the liver damage by alcohol is whether primary or due to the effects from other organs are thought to be necessary in future |
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