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A 51-year-old Connecticut woman suffering from end-stage liver disease is in desperate need of a living liver donor.
Litchfield County resident Cynthia Define, a 51-year-old New Milford single mother of three, said time is running out and hopes a new call for a donor will save her life.
Define was diagnosed at age 13 with primary biliary cirrhosis, a chronic disease in which the bile ducts in the liver are slowly destroyed.
Because she was adopted months after birth there is no health history to try to understand why she has this disease.
At age 42, doctors told Define she had stage 4 liver cirrhosis.
Can We Fix the Body’s Dysmetabolic State?
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It s a condition that increases the risk of diabetes and more. Now hope might be around the corner.
By Lina Zeldovich
February24, 2021
An epidemic of obesity is leading to multiple diseases that share as their basis a problem called the dysmetabolic state.
This condition increases the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and a serious, progressive form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
Now scientists believe they may have found a way to fight back.
It’s no secret that obesity, diabetes and heart disease are among the most devastating illnesses of the developed world. But while many health care professionals used to view them as separate, stand-alone conditions, there’s now a growing awareness that the three are tightly connected, caused by a shared problem called the dysmetabolic state, which can take hold when peop
A hepatitis C diagnosis can come as a surprise, leaving you wondering how and why you got infected in the first place. First, there’s good news to keep in mind: Even if you’ve contracted hep C, the virus is curable about 95% of the time, per the World Health Organization (WHO). But because hep C will come right back if you keep doing whatever caused you to become infected in the first place, it’s a good idea to understand the factors that may have raised your risk of getting hep C. Here’s everything you need to know.
Miracle baby survives COVID-19, liver transplant before 1st birthday
Two months after his birth, baby Kasen was diagnosed with a rare liver disease
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Mitayah Donerlson is beyond grateful now that her son is healing after a liver transplant and survived COVID-19. According to
Kasen
Donerlson, who is now being called a “miracle baby,” beat the odds all before his 1st birthday.
“All I could do was cry. They were mommy tears and tears of joy. I was just so happy,” said Kasen’s mother to
Good Morning America. “I always knew he was going to get a transplant that was my faith but to finally get that call and get that message that the surgery was scheduled and to have that relief from the burden on my shoulders dropped, it felt so good.”