Can you die suddenly from liver cirrhosis?

Question

I've just found out that my best friend has died, apparently of cirrhosis of the liver. He was only 39. I hadn't talked to him for a few months, as we live halfway across the world from each other, but the last time I talked to him he sounded alright and did not mention anything to me about being ill. I know that he had been drinking quite excessively, but I had NO idea he was drinking as much as apparently he had. From what his sister has said, he called 911 on a Monday, vomiting blood and having breathing trouble, by Monday night he was considered brain dead and by Tuesday he had died. Could he have known how ill he was? He hated doctors, so I don't know if he'd seen one prior or not. How could he have died so suddenly? Surely, if he were so ill he were about to die, he would have been ill enough to have been hospitalised before it got so bad he called 911...? I'm left with too many unanswered questions, but I was just wondering if any of you out there know anything, thanks.

Answer 1

yes, you absolutely can die suddenly from cirrhosis of the liver. What happens is the liver just fails suddenly from the disease. When the liver fails it affects every organ in the body. He may have known he was ill, but perhaps he thought he Wasn't that bad off. I'm sorry for you because I know it's painful losing someone you love.

alcohol causes more death than any other drug and people still do not recognize the seriousness of consuming large amounts of alcohol.

Answer 2

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Don't worry so much! Cirrhosis (what usually leads to liver failure -- scarring of the liver) takes YEARS of heavy abuse. The worst you could get for the few days of acetemetophen is fatty liver disease (still veryunlikely), which will go away if you stop taking acetometophen and drinking alcohol. Just take a few days off and wait. Eat healthy foods, and wait a week or two. If you still feel bad or worried then, just see a doctor. It's probably unnecessary. Also, your serratus anterior muscle might just hurt a little. Happens to me all the time from frisbee, golf, over-exertion, etc. Don't worry!

Answer 3

Yes, a person can die suddenly from cirrhosis of the liver. But what really happened was that alcoholism slowly stole your friends life. He may or may not have known what was going on with his liver.
The alcoholism could have been so entrenched, he may have ignored all the symptoms. After all you go to the doc with a liver disease and the doc is going to say "Quit drinking".
39 is a very young age, but not all that surprising. I lost a cousin just a couple of years older than that.

Sorry for your loss. For more answers to your questions you might go to an al-anon meeting and or speak with an alcoholism specialist (a recovering alcoholic could explain a lot of the dependency, and a doctor could explain the medical stuff).

Answer 4

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Can you die suddenly from liver cirrhosis?
I've just found out that my best friend has died, apparently of cirrhosis of the liver. He was only 39. I hadn't talked to him for a few months, as we live halfway across the world from each other, but the last time I talked to him he sounded alright and did not mention anything to me...

Answer 5

To begin with, the liver is a very uncomplaining
organ...by this I mean that people on the
street may be walking around with hepatitis
(inflammation of the liver cells) and not know it.
It isn't until the functions, that the liver does to
help the body stay healthy and alive, start to
fail that many will start to show symptoms.
Alot of patients don't know about it until
they have other testing done for something
else or until they start showing symptoms that
may not show up at all until they are in liver
failure.
People with liver cirrhosis can develop fluid
in the stomach area which could be mistaken
for a beer belly in alcoholics, also. In this
disease they may also develop mental problems,
but people who drink may think that this is
just coming from the alcohol. You asked
what may have caused him to die suddenly...
I will explain this. From what you stated,
he didn't die from the liver disease by itself,
he died from bleeding internally and throwing
up blood. The blood that usually flows to
the liver from many other areas in the body
can back up and go to others areas since
liver disease causes much scar tissue and
basically causes the stoppage of blood flowing
through it. This blood is then increased in
the veins in other areas of the body that is
not used to having to handle that amount and
can cause the vessels to balloon outwards.
Usually, these areas are located in the
belly button area, the rectum, or the lower
part of the esophagus. In this case it sounds
like it was in the esophagus. If they burst, the
blood flows into the esophagus and the patient
throws it up. They are then bleeding internally
also. If this bleeding is not stopped immediately,
it can cause a person to bleed to death.
This ballooning out of the vessels is know as
varies. It sounds also like the blood was
going into his lungs, his blood pressure may
be dropping fast if he was bleeding alot and
that he went into shock because of it all.
Any continually bleeding can cause a person
to die very fast if it is not stopped in time and
replacement blood given. The doctors would
of had to enter the esophagus with a scope
and try to band the areas that were bleeding
That would take more time than maybe he
had once he got to the hospital.

This site will explain cirrhosis better. I would
like you to look at two areas on here that
will confirm what I posted about: the
one is "portal hypertension" and the other is
"varies".
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cirrhosis/

I hope this information is of some help. I'm
sorry you had to lose such a young friend.

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Answer 8

Dont always assume cirrhosis comes from drinking alcohol, you may have a auto immune disease that is undiagnosed and when drinking alcohol (even alittle) is like pouring gas on the fire. Importance fact to it all it take care of yourself and go for annual check-ups. When things are diagnosed early they can be taken care of.

Answer 9

yep he prob blew out a varix, an engorged blood vessel in the esophagus, caused by mechanical backpressure from the damaged liver. Fairly common in liver damge.

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