Flora bacteriana intestinal en pacientes con hepatopatías crónicas Intestinal bacterial flora in patients with chronic hepatopathies

The diagnosis and treatment of the hepatic diseases are among the prioritized objectives of the Cuban Public Health Ministry; however, the new findings regarding their pathophysiologies oblige the sanitary professionals to be informed and updated on that matter, for that purpose a literature review was carried out mainly aimed at the pathophysiological clinical course of the intestinal bacterial flora that accounts for the hepatic damage, anatomy and physiology of the hepatobiliary system.