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Causes
By Mayo Clinic staff
Problems that can occur in the liver include:
- Acute liver failure
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Bile duct obstruction
- Chronic liver failure
- Cirrhosis
- Enlarged liver
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- Liver adenoma
- Liver cancer
- Liver cyst
- Liver hemangioma
- Liver nodule (focal nodular hyperplasia)
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Parasitic infection
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Toxic hepatitis
- Wilson's disease
References
- Your liver. Your life. What everybody needs to know about liver wellness. American Liver Foundation. http://www.yourliver.org/Liver-Wellness-Presentation.pdf. Accessed Feb. 24, 2011.
- Viral hepatitis: A through E and beyond. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/viralhepatitis/index.htm. Accessed Feb. 24, 2011.
- Cirrhosis. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cirrhosis/index.htm. Accessed Feb. 24, 2011.
- It's dangerous to ignore your liver. American Liver Foundation. http://www.yourliver.org/risk.html. Accessed Feb. 24, 2011.
- Liver biopsy. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/liverbiopsy/index.htm. Accessed Feb. 24, 2011.
- Know your ALT. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. http://www.aasld.org/patients/Pages/KnowYourALT.aspx. Accessed Feb. 24, 2011.
- Pratt DS. Liver chemistry and function tests. In: Feldman M, et al. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders Elsevier; 2010. http://www.mdconsult.com/books/about.do?eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4160-6189-2..X0001-7--TOP&isbn=978-1-4160-6189-2&about=true&uniqId=229935664-2192. Accessed Feb. 24, 2011.
- Seeff LB. Herbal hepatotoxicity. Clinics in Liver Disease. 2007;11:577.
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