The length a person can live with liver damage is very subjective and therefore hard to give an accurate answer to your question.
The liver cells are what functions the liver, to keep the body well. When the cells of the liver become damaged, then the functions start to deteriorate and this is known as liver failure. As it progresses to where the liver cells start to die off, more signs and symptoms occur and the less functions the liver does.
The liver cells do not die off all at once as it is a progressive disease (if the patient has been diagnosed with Cirrhosis). You see, as the liver cells die off, scar tissue forms inside the liver that blocks the flow of blood to the functioning liver cells and they start to die, also.
The top test done to see how far advanced a person is in Cirrhosis of the liver is the Liver biopsy. Since the doctors are looking at the actual tissue of the liver and not just films of it...they can tell more. They can see the fibrosis, and the scar
tissue and give you an estimated guess how much longer she may have to live.
When patients are placed on the transplant list, they have blood tests done frequently and receive what is known as a MELD score. The MELD score runs from 6 to 40.
Those who are closer to a six are the healthiest on the list and may even go off the
list is they get better...as they go up the scale closer to 40, they become sicker and the less time they have to live without having a transplant done. The tests
the doctor use to determine this score are the Bilirubin, INR, Creatinine, and Sodium.
Therefore without having these tests results, there is no way to even guess at the answer you need.
The liver cells are what functions the liver, to keep the body well. When the cells of the liver become damaged, then the functions start to deteriorate and this is known as liver failure. As it progresses to where the liver cells start to die off, more signs and symptoms occur and the less functions the liver does.
The liver cells do not die off all at once as it is a progressive disease (if the patient has been diagnosed with Cirrhosis). You see, as the liver cells die off, scar tissue forms inside the liver that blocks the flow of blood to the functioning liver cells and they start to die, also.
The top test done to see how far advanced a person is in Cirrhosis of the liver is the Liver biopsy. Since the doctors are looking at the actual tissue of the liver and not just films of it...they can tell more. They can see the fibrosis, and the scar
tissue and give you an estimated guess how much longer she may have to live.
When patients are placed on the transplant list, they have blood tests done frequently and receive what is known as a MELD score. The MELD score runs from 6 to 40.
Those who are closer to a six are the healthiest on the list and may even go off the
list is they get better...as they go up the scale closer to 40, they become sicker and the less time they have to live without having a transplant done. The tests
the doctor use to determine this score are the Bilirubin, INR, Creatinine, and Sodium.
Therefore without having these tests results, there is no way to even guess at the answer you need.
