Tag: Liver Disease Section

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Isn’t there only one liver? How can you live by donating it to others?

Reports of “donating liver to save children” and “donating liver to save fathers” continue in the media, guiding healthy trends and spreading positive energy, while also bringing living donor liver transplantation into the public eye. Interlaced like mountains, most of the media did not introduce these medical terms in detail, so the public could only be in the clouds and fog. Today we will talk about the scientific dry goods behind these news. Does the liver have what function? Why do you want to change liver? Generally speaking, the liver has six major functions, including bile secretion, substance metabolism, biotransformation (detoxification), hematopoiesis, coagulation and immunity, and is the [chemical plant] of the human body. When the pathological changes lead to Read More …

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Do I need hepatitis B vaccine? Do you know if it is effective after playing how?

The older generation, there may be many people who have not been vaccinated against hepatitis B, do not know much about it, and even think that it is not good that I have not been vaccinated. Is hepatitis B vaccine really useful? Today, Dr. Clove will tell you whether hepatitis B vaccine is useful or not. Hepatitis B vaccine is very useful China is a big country with hepatitis B, and there are about 90 million people infected with chronic HBV in China. This figure also means that the positive rate of hepatitis B surface antigen in the general population in China is 7.18%. According to the 2014 National Epidemiological Survey of Hepatitis B, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is Read More …

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Fudan Poisoning Case Withdraws Confession in Second Instance, Death from Poisoning or Fulminant Hepatitis B?

On 8 December 2014, The highly concerned Fudan University poisoning case was tried in Shanghai. Suspect Lin Senhao retracted his confession on the spot, denying that he had any motive for poisoning, saying that poisoning was only [April Fool’s Day joke]. What is even more shocking is that defense expert and forensic Hu Zhiqiang claimed: According to the autopsy results of Huang Yang, Huang Yang’s death was fulminant hepatitis B, not N-dimethylnitrosamine poisoning. This remark has aroused heated discussion on the Internet. The court has its own judgment on the defense. As bystanders, we might as well understand N-dimethylnitrosamine and fulminant hepatitis B before making an evaluation. Is N-Dimethylnitrosamine what? N-dimethylnitrosamine is a semi-volatile organic chemical with weak smell and Read More …