Liver disease
Definition
The term "liver disease" applies to many diseases and disorders that cause the liver to function improperly or stop functioning. Abdominal pain, yellowing of the skin or eyes (jaundice), or abnormal results of liver function tests suggest you have liver disease.
See also:
- Amebic liver abscess
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Biliary atresia
- Cirrhosis
- Coccidioidomycosis; disseminated
- Delta agent (hepatitis D)
- Drug-induced cholestasis
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Liver disease due to alcohol
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Pyogenic liver abscess
- Reye syndrome
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- Wilson's disease
References
Ergasa NV. Approach to the patient with liver disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 149.
See Also: Aspiration pneumonia, Alcoholic liver disease, Delta agent (Hepatitis D), Peptic ulcer, Wilson's disease, Intestinal obstruction, Reye syndrome, Phlegmasia cerulea dolens, Cirrhosis, Sclerosing cholangitis, Autoimmune hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Histiocytosis, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Nausea and vomiting, CPR - child (1 to 8 years old), Hepatitis C, Amebic liver abscess, Diarrhea, Hepatitis B, Lung cancer - small cell, Hemochromatosis, Food poisoning, Biliary atresia, Unstable angina, Primary biliary cirrhosis, Liver function tests, Drug-induced cholestasis, Pyogenic liver abscess, Coccidioidomycosis - disseminated, Esophagectomy - minimally invasive, Esophagectomy - open, Esophagectomy - discharge , and Gallstones - discharge
Review date: August 14, 2010
Reviewed by: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
