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What Causes Liver Enlargement?
my mom is 55 years old 5'11'' very thin builb. arrived home from a 2 hr car ride while unloading the car she suddenly had very bad stomach pain from the belly button down the pain was so bad it mad her vommit. took her to the hospital and found her liver is very large but no answer why
Wed, 2 Nov 2016
firstly i tell you that there are numerous causes of liver enlargement at this age like alcoholic liver disease, Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease associated with obesity and diabetes , various chronic infection like hepatitis B and C and primary biliary cirrhosis etc. so through a proper history taking and panel of investigation can tell u the cause but in few causes no cause is found that is called as idiopatic
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