Hepatitis
The most common cause of hepatitis.
What is viral infection?
This is where the location of pain will be felt.
What is RUQ pain?
These enzymes are elevated with liver damage.
What are AST and ALT?
This is why ascites can occur (name one).
What is portal hypertension OR hypoalbuminemia?
Fluid accumulation in the abdomen.
What is ascites?
These hepatitis types are spread via fecal-oral route.
What are hepatitis A and E?
Dark urine and clay-colored stools indicate this.
What is jaundice/bilirubin buildup?
This is what you should instruct the patient to do following a liver biopsy.
What is laying in a right side-lying position?
This is why patients develop edema in cirrhosis.
What is low albumin --> fluid shift?
A patient with cirrhosis has confusion and asterixis. This is the cause.
What is ammonia buildup (hepatic encephalopathy)?
This hepatitis type is spread ONLY through blood.
What is hepatitis C?
This phase of hepatitis is the most infectious.
What is the acute phase?
This lab indicates clotting ability and is prolonged in liver disease.
What is PT/INR?
Portal hypertension leads to this life-threatening complication.
What are esophageal varices?
This breath odor is associated with liver failure.
What is fector hepaticus?
These hepatitis types are spread through blood and bodily fluids.
What are hepatitis B and D?
This phase lasts weeks to months. The patient will complain of fatigue and experience hepatomegaly.
What is convalescent phase?
Low levels of this contribute to edema and ascites.
What is albumin?
This involves decreased collodial oncotic pressure from impaired liver synthesis of albumin and increased portacaval pressure from portal HTN.
What is peripheral edema?
A patient with cirrhosis vomits blood. This is what is occuring.
What is bleeding esophageal varices?
A nurse is educating about transmission. This behavior is the highest risk for contracting hepatitis C.
What is sharing needles?
Confusion and agitation in liver disease indicate this complication.
What is hepatic encephalopathy?
The most definitive diagonstic test for liver disease.
What is liver biopsy?
This occurs when the liver is unable to convert increased ammonia and it crosses the blood-brain barrier.
What is hepatic encephalopathy?
Renal failure caused by liver disease without kidney damage.
What is hepatorenal syndrome?