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Classification of liver disease
Dr. Wu's Liver diseases
for professionals (medical students and residents) and consumers
by Jau-Shin WU, M.D., Ph.D.
( Last updated April 09, 2004 )

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Classification of liver diseases

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(Key words: liver diseases, classification, )

For professionals:

  1. Toxic injury to the liver
    1. Drug induced
    2. Industrial and environmental toxin
    3. Alcoholic
    4. Postoperative hepatic dysfunction

  2. Infectious agents and parasites
    1. Hepatitis virus
    2. Bacterial and other pathogenic agents
    3. Parasites

  3. Immune disorder
    1. Autoimmune
    2. Primary biliary cirrhosis

  4. Tumors
    1. Primary malignant tumors
    2. Metastatic malignant tumors
    3. Benign hepatic tumors
    4. Tumor-like lesion

  5. Inherited
    1. Wilson's disease
    2. Hemochromatosis
    3. Inborn errors
    4. Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
    5. Cyst

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    (By Jau-Shin Wu, M.D.;Posted Sep. 1996; Revised April 08, 2004 )