What causes these Symptoms and Conditions to the Liver Transplant Candidate?

What causes these symptoms and conditions to the liver transplant candidate?  Generally speaking, either alcohol or a liver disease cause these symptoms and conditions.  In the case of alcohol, it is the too much of a good thing adage.  For other liver diseases, the onset is many times sudden and the liver deteriorates rather quickly.  Alcohol induced liver damage, on the other hand, is most times a long term and progressive change in the liver.  People, in many instances, develop cirrhosis gradually, and in many times, over a span of 30 years or more.  Cirrhosis occurs when the alcohol or liver disease kills cells in the liver, and no longer allows regeneration. When the cells are dead, this is a condition called fibrosis.  The severity of the damage will determine odds of survival without a liver transplant or an approximation as to when a transplant may be needed.  So, as the cirrhosis presents itself, so do the symptoms (in a previous blog) and conditions appear for the liver transplant candidate.  Tinnitus, or ringing of the ears, is another symptom that I forgot in a previous blog about symptoms.  The next blog will cover medications and survivability issues for the liver transplant candidate.