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What is Fatty Liver Disease & can it cause Liver Failure & Cancer if neglected? – Dr. Ravindra B S

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Whenever there is a fatty liver disease in the ultrasound, you should be worried because fatty liver disease in the ultrasound indicates that there is cholesterol developing in the body or we are developing prediabetes, that is something we should be aware of a fatty liver disease. Whenever there is a fatty liver disease, still now we used to neglect thinking that it is just an enlargement of the liver but fatty liver disease is the common reason for liver cirrhosis as well as liver cancer. That is why when we see fatty liver disease in the ultrasound, we should check for any sugar problem, any cholesterol problem or infections such as Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C. If fatty liver disease is there, their new method to find it out and that is called as fibroscan. We look at the liver by fibroscan and usually if there is any liver disease, then we usually treat them with vitamins, if they have sugar, we treat them with diabetes medicine. If they have cholesterol, we target them with cholesterol medicines. Most important message for fatty liver disease patients are that they have to reduce their weight and do exercise and they should cut down on their fats. This is the way to reduce fatty liver disease.

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