[Pathogenetic mechanisms of chronicity in liver diseases in patients with circulatory failure].

Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) can often develop such diseases as hepatitis of viral etiology, alcoholic hepatitis, drug affection of the liver and other diseases masked as congestive liver. In most cases CHF concomitant liver diseases have an atypical course with a tendency to a chronic course. CHF is one of the important pathogenetic mechanisms lying in the basis of chronicity of concomitant liver diseases.

[Cardiac cirrhosis of the liver].

The analysis of the authors' material showed that there was not a single case where the morphological changes in the liver could be interpreted as cirrhosis in the usual sense of the word. In most cases patients with the most severe and intractable syndrome of cardiac insufficiency characterized by a torpid course have combined liver damage. Along with marked circulatory disturbances in the liver, these cases may be characterized by the disorder of the absorptive excretary function of the liver induced by independent damaging factors (alcohol damage, viral hepatitis, cholelithiasis, etc.