Liver
The liver is one of the most important organs in the human body and the largest, weighing about 1500 grams to 2000 grams, which is a brown color of red and a conical shape divided into four unequal lobes are: left lobe, right, and hepatic hepatic section, The liver is located in the abdomen under the right rib, and is linked to the hepatic artery, which is loaded with oxidized blood coming from the heart. It is also associated with the portal vein, which is loaded with food coming from the digestive system through the small intestine. Part of it Breed and grow.
The importance of liver in the human body
- Change the composition of simple chemicals such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats to substances in other forms useful to the body, and chemicals reach the liver after absorption of the digestive system.
- Protein production is important for strengthening the immune system.
- Production of oxygen-carrying globin and storage of glycogen.
- The production of cholesterol, through the ability to break down fat and convert it to the form accepted by the body.
- Regulation of blood sugar level.
- To rid the body of ammonia known as its toxins and converted to urea, and this is done by a full cycle of the liver in a period of time does not exceed seconds.
- Bile excretion is important task in the digestion process, rid the body of fat.
- Cracking and clearing the body of the old red blood cells, the blood vessels are constantly regenerating and changing.
- Secretion of certain types of hormones.
- Production of blood clotting factors, namely fibrinogen, prothrombin, factor V, VII.
- The blood supply is preserved because of its ability to produce heparin anti-clotting and other compounds that help to hydrate.
- To rid the body of toxins by filtering out blood from all harmful chemical compounds.
- Production of red blood cells in the body of the fetus.
Liver diseases
Any abnormality affecting the liver affects the health of the body, it may lead in some cases advanced to death, and the most important diseases that impair the work of the liver include:
- Hepatitis , And has three types:
- Hepatitis A: It is not dangerous and can be treated with ease.
- Hepatitis B: It is more dangerous than Type A, but can coexist with and treat it.
- Hepatitis C is one of the most dangerous species. In advanced cases, he may die. It is difficult to treat and remains in the body for ten to fifteen years.
- Liver cirrhosis or cirrhosis: A disease in which the tissues of the liver change into a decade of solid lymphocytes, and in this disease is the most appropriate solution is liver transplantation, and this is reached by modern medicine.