NEW DELHI - MEGASTAR Amitabh Bachchan told fans he has liver cirrhosis caused by a blood transfusion in the 1980s.
The 67-year-old said in his blog last Friday that 25 per cent of his liver has been destroyed due to a blood transfusion in 1982 after a filming mishap.
'Eight years ago, during the course of an MRI, they discovered that 25 per cent of my liver had been destroyed by it and that, after having done that, was now lying inactive. For the time being, that is.
'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.’
The actor seriously injured his intestines during a fight scene for the movie
Coolie, the Press Trust of India reported.
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