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Fluid retention is a sign of liver damage, definitely.
It can indicate serious, ongoing inflammation or cirrhosis. It certainly sounds as though your mother has cirrhosis. Here are some excerpts on symptoms of cirrhosis. The loss of normal liver tissue increasingly slows the processing of nutrients, hormones, drugs, and toxins by the liver, as well as the production of proteins and other substances made by the liver. The scar tissue that forms in cirrhosis damages the structure of the liver, progressively making the flow of blood through the liver more difficult.