BOLLYWOOD MEGASTAR BACHCHAN'S LIVER TROUBLE

NEW DELHI, April 26 (Bernama) --- India's megastar Amitabh Bachchan has
revealed to his fans that he is suffering from liver cirrhosis that was caused
by a blood transfusion which he underwent in the 80s.

The 67-year-old actor said in his blog that 25 per cent of his liver had
been destroyed due to blood transfusion which was done in 1982, after a fatal
mishap while filming.

"Eight years ago, during the course of an MRI, they discovered that 25 per
cent of my liver had been destroyed by it. I was, therefore, technically or
shall we say, in medical terminology, a patient by default, a patient who had
developed cirrhosis of the liver, a condition that is normally associated with
that of an alcoholic.

So here I was, a non-alcoholic, a teetotaller, with an ailment that I
imbibed through a blood transfusion from a donor," he said.

He was badly injured while filming the Hindi movie, "Coolie", and needed
blood transfusion to save his life.



The actor was given blood from an unknown donor infected with the Australian
antigen Hepatitis.

He said that since the discovery of his medical problem he had been on
constant medical care.

Bachchan has a cult-like following in India and had acted in over 100
movies, many of which went on to become blockbusters, making him a prominent
actor in the Indian film industry until today.

-- BERNAMA



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