Palliative care of patient with decompensated liver cirrhosis

In this article a case of a patient with decompensated liver cirrhosis in whom an effective pain manage­ment was introduced with a significant reduction of pruritus intensity was submitted. Because of the liver insufficiency the care for cancer patients require a more intense monitoring regarding symptomatic treatment and sometimes causes necessity of resignation from some drugs administration. Even more caution is required during palliative treatment of patients diagnosed with decompensated liver cirrhosis. Schemes of the treatment of decompensated liver cirrhosis comprise many drugs, which are not being used in everyday clinical practice in palliative medicine. The application of these drugs in a depicted pa­tient provided a significant improvement in efficacy of symptom management. Concurrently significant contraindications appeared for the use of drugs, which could be used in patients without liver cirrhosis