You can see your doctor if you suspect that you have an inflamed liver. In other cases, routine bloodwork or imaging studies performed for other reasons may help detect an inflamed liver.

Effective biliary drainage is essential for the beginning of palliative chemotherapy. There is a debate on the amount of liver parenchyma that should be drained to achieve clinical success. This study ...

Primary biliary cholangitis (formerly known as primary biliary cirrhosis ... a combination of serum liver tests (to identify those with an elevated bilirubin, a platelet count <150 or biochemical ...

Correspondence to Dr Pere Ginès, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona 08036, Spain; ...

The role of social determinants of health in autoimmune liver diseases such as primary ... Of these, 47 had primary sclerosing cholangitis, 157 had autoimmune hepatitis, 131 had PBC, and 29 had ...

Patients with overlap syndromes present with both hepatitic and cholestatic biochemical and histological features of AIH, PBC, and/or PSC, and usually show a progressive course toward liver ...

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC ... the bile ducts), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and primary biliary cirrhosis (a chronic liver disease). In addition to taking your medical history ...

Primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis and autoimmune hepatitis are the three major immune-mediated liver diseases. The etiologies of primary biliary cirrhosis, primary ...

And there was.” Mandy, from Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, was diagnosed with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) a liver disease which causes liver failure. The condition also leaves ...

Liver diseases are any diseases that affect the functioning of the liver. Liver diseases can be inherited (such as Wilson disease and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency) or acquired (for example ...

The patient was a 42-year-old male who presented with pruritus, elevated liver function tests, epigastric pain, and flatulence. Read more about the treatment of PBC Laboratory tests showed a ...

A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver complications ...