Liver Explained! Function, Pathology, Diseases, & Cirrhosis

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Speaker: Roger Seheult, MD
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[mathewphilip]

It is really good and simple. Even non medical people can understand it well. I am a Gastroenterologist, I found the explanations are very simple and can be utilized to explain to medical and paramedics.

[matrixibrahim]

I'm a med student and I'm rotating in internal medicine so this really helpful for those test we do on our patients and simplifying it for me to understand.

[darkprince]

I lost one of my aunts in December due to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease that progressed to cirrhosis… Her death was slow, agonizing and horrible. At the end stage of the disease, she was so incredibly bloated, started leaking fluid from her anus and urethra, she stopped peeing, seemed to retain all liquid and bruised quite easily. She was quite aware as her liver failed, until the last week where she drifted in and out of consciousness, most of the time delirious (I think due to hepatic encephalopathy which is a buildup of toxins in the brain that causes confusion, as well as both mental and physical complications). Take care of your livers, people. It's a horrible way to go.

[mysecondemailatl]

Random comment...
I'm just a dude that works in warehouse. No medical schooling, little college education.
I used to talk to a girl with epilepsy. (Wasn't allowed to physically see her only text and call) I didn't like how for 20+ years they couldn't find out how to slow or stop them (except for some chemo pill she took but she couldn't remember the name)
I deducted they were catamenial. Did more research and theorized with her proteinuria she was leaking albumin through her kidneys which tends to carry progesterone leading to a high ratio of estrogen during her ovulation phase when she tended to have 3 or 4 seizures a day. So essentially I said fix your proteinuria, you might solve the seizures. I didn't have many ideas only some curcumin and raw vegetable diet. Only so much I could do from afar, and i couldn't get her to think, she had such low self-esteem among other issues.
I don't know if I was right.

[summermazur]

So excited to see you've added a liver lecture series! I loved your kidney and acid-base lectures, and neither hepatology nor nephrology are often talked about in depth!

[zaskianatalievilla]

Wow, super grateful to have come across your channel. I really enjoy the way you piece all the information together; it works really well for my brain. Thank you. :-)

[jimmy-ymnu]

very fantastic and usefull...congratulations and we need much and much more!!!

[thessykay]

Great job on helping simplifying everything for us. Broken down really well. Thank you

[ioetbvs]

Like it..makes a lot of sense to even a non medical person. 👍🏻

[g.c.w]

Thank you for the teachings Can you talk about fatty liver.

[jewelsoftheworld]

Awesome substantive discussion. Thanks for sharing.

[chandusingh]

Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very best

[sidmichael]

What test to determine if your liver is functioning properly?

[prabhashgupta]

Now at some extent i understand liver function thank you

[drhanafayyad]

Thank u for this, n other lectures, all scientific n enjoyable. One thing herein, however, is that Albumin might be reduced also in nephrotic syndrome, ( n severe malnutrition), or lymphatic duct abnormalities, without liver disease; so albumin is not exactly specific to liver disease.

[khushpatel]

Plz explain in white background (projector)

[Conbotron]

This would be an amazing resource if you had slides and drew on the instead of blackboard

[lisamichelle]

You didn’t mention whether the Albumin marker was either high or low ? 🤔

[happsingh]

if albumin is low = chronic liver injury (@ 7:36) ??
Vs.
albumin is HIGH = acute liver injury (@ 7:44) ???

[dumdropdumdrop]

liver functions from the heart as oxygenated blood? volume and regulated pressure. in basic could the liver be comparable to a milk thistle but whereas temperature difference affect exchanges in volume while liver functions necessitate from the heart to provide an exchange? to detoxify could perhaps be in part to a system where ph balance result? wouldnt it be safe to detoxify dyes rathan to think from a digestive tract and the breaking down to glucose from sugar substance? that approach clearly ignores direct function for a ph balance where volume and regulated pressure to hepatic artery and not a digestive tract opposite of extracting. the general public has a right to be informed of direct information when pertaining to ph balance in the process result perfusion. saying "the body can tell when to perfuse" is a baseless assertion. when to conclude liver functionality to detoxify a body in volume that as stems from hepatic artery.