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Liver disease can be passed through families, called inherited. Anything that damages the liver also can cause liver problems, including viruses, alcohol use ...
Learn how doctors use surgery, liver transplant, radiation, chemotherapy and other methods to treat hepatocellular carcinoma and other types of liver ...
This liver condition is becoming more common in the Western world. Find out how to treat and prevent this potentially dangerous liver disease.
Living-donor transplants. Liver cancer and advanced cases of cirrhotic liver disease may require liver transplants. Given the shortage of whole livers for ...
Blood tests. A group of blood tests called liver function tests can diagnose liver disease. · Imaging tests. An ultrasound, CT scan and MRI can show liver damage ...
Having a larger than normal liver is a sign of a serious problem, such as liver disease, congestive heart failure or cancer.
In 2018, about 8,200 liver transplants were performed in the U.S. among adults and children. Of those, about 390 involved livers from living donors. At the same ...
Screen for liver infections, such as hepatitis. · Monitor a disease, such as viral or alcoholic hepatitis, and determine how well a treatment is working. · Look ...
A rapid loss of liver function can occur in people who don't even have liver disease. Find out about symptoms, treatment and prevention of this serious ...
A liver hemangioma (he-man-jee-O-muh) is a noncancerous (benign) mass in the liver made up of a tangle of blood vessels. Also known as hepatic hemangiomas ...
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