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When acute liver failure can't be reversed, the only treatment may be a liver transplant. During a liver transplant, a surgeon removes the damaged liver and replaces it with a healthy liver from a donor.
Getting liver disease treatment can prevent liver failure and even death. Additionally, it’s possible to reverse many cases of liver damage.
End-stage liver disease: Little to no liver function (often called liver failure) Can a damaged liver repair itself? A liver with no cirrhosis has a high capacity to regenerate itself.
Liver failure is when the liver is losing or has lost all of its function. Multiple types and stages of liver disease can lead to liver failure. Learn more here.
If you’ve been diagnosed with liver failure, keep in mind that your prognosis and life expectancy depend on many factors, such as the stage of your disease when you were diagnosed, your age and gender, and other health risks you may have. Your healthcare team can best answer questions about your individual prognosis.
Liver failure is a potentially life-threatening condition in which the liver is no longer able to service the body's needs. Liver failure develops in stages, causing early-stage signs like nausea and vomiting before progressing to more serious symptoms like ascites (fluid accumulation in the belly) and jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes).
You can have chronic liver failure for years with no symptoms. Treatment includes medication (for acute liver failure), and a change in diet and alcohol use (for chronic liver...