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Hi!
Welcome to our video series
on liver cirrhosis
complications.
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We're going to take a look at a
citis, and peripheral edema.
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A very common complication
with liver failure.
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I know this is overwhelming and
you know how I feel about list,
I'm not asking your brain
to look at all this.
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Pull back,
look at the big picture,
as you can see we're
hitting neurological, GI,
your skin, hematologic,
that definitely
impacts these systems
when your liver is struggling
when you have liver
failure or cirrhosis.
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But believe it or
not, that's not all.
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Look at this,
we couldn't even
fit it on one slide.
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Now the livers involved
in making hormones
and damage to the liver can also
throw off the reproductive system.
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You may not have normally associated
reproductive problems with liver failure,
but it's a big deal.
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So because that's
such a fragile system
delivers so intricately
involved in making hormones.
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You see those complications
with a patient
that has cirrhosis.
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Now we're not focusing on any of
those systems I just discussed.
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Look over to the lower
corner of your screen.
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You see I've got a box around
the word cardiovascular.
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I want you to take a look at the
three bullet points underneath those.
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That's what we're
going to focus on.
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I want you to have a really good
understanding of why and how
a patient with cirrhosis
ends up with ascites.
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And you're talking about
fluid volume balance
that's a big deal with
your cardiovascular system.
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So we're looking
at fluid retention
and peripheral
edema and ascites.
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Ready?
All right, let's go.