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what is CHILD A disease??
Iv been diagnosed with stage 3-4 liver cirrosis, and have just been to see my specialist and he sent me a diagnosis letter to me and my gp and it says all the usual stuff but also says -- likely CHILDS A disease -- he never said anything to me when i went to see him, and i don't want to bother my gp if its nothing to worry about? Can anyone help?
Child's A cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22123435
matthew -
Think of it as a number of different ways of categorizing the status of your cirrhosis. Your stage is looking at the liver as a stand alone item and it is a measure of the degree of septal fibrosis and architecture changes. Whether you're compensated or decompensation depends on whether your other organs can help out (compensate) for the liver's lack of efficiency (this is wrt disturbed portal blood circulation). When they can't, you become decompensated and that's when the real trouble starts. The Child score is trying to assess things from a short term prognosis standpoint. Another score that's similar is called the MELD score. Hope this helps.
Think of it as a number of different ways of categorizing the status of your cirrhosis. Your stage is looking at the liver as a stand alone item and it is a measure of the degree of septal fibrosis and architecture changes. Whether you're compensated or decompensation depends on whether your other organs can help out (compensate) for the liver's lack of efficiency (this is wrt disturbed portal blood circulation). When they can't, you become decompensated and that's when the real trouble starts. The Child score is trying to assess things from a short term prognosis standpoint. Another score that's similar is called the MELD score. Hope this helps.
cirrhosis can be compensated or decompensatet.
child scores are from a,b to c
child a is the earliest mildest form of cirrhosis.
checkout the link from ruby jack
child scores are from a,b to c
child a is the earliest mildest form of cirrhosis.
checkout the link from ruby jack
What does it mean that i may have CHILDS A, when iv allready been diagnosed with cirrhosis?
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