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unusual facts about cirrhosis



Joel Minnick Longenecker

He went to Paw Paw Lake in Berrien County, Michigan to recuperate, and on September 19, 1906 died from cirrhosis of the liver, probably due – in no small part – to excessive drinking.

Keith Boyce

He died from the effects of chronic cirrhosis of the liver while sitting in a chair at a pharmacist's in Speightstown, Barbados in 1996.

Max González Olaechea

He carried out his studies at the School of Medicine of the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, where he graduated with a thesis on cirrhosis.

Pearl White

Her last years were spent in an alcoholic haze, and she died of cirrhosis at age 49 on August 4, 1938 in the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly, France.

Peginterferon alfa-2a

This drug is approved around the world for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (including patients with HIV co-infection, cirrhosis, 'normal' levels of ALT) and has recently been approved (in the EU, U.S., China and many other countries) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B.

Sir William Edward Hercules Verner, 3rd Baronet

He died at 30 years of age on 8 June 1886 of cirrhosis of the liver and was buried at Loughgall in Ireland.


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