More articles about: Liver Disease
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Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising. Do You Know the Treatable Risk Factors?
Learn about the risks of chronic liver disease, the treatable liver disease factors and how rates of liver cancer have increased.
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Tackling Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Head On
Learn about nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), including causes, symptoms and treatment approaches offered at Michigan Medicine's Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Clinic.
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What Is Hepatitis? Common Types and Treatments Demystified
Learn about types of hepatitis, how to diagnose hepatitis with the aspartate aminotransferase (AST) test and the alanine aminotransferase (ALT) test, and about hepatitis treatment.
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What to Do After a Liver Disease Diagnosis
Liver disease diagnosis and treatment depend on the type of liver condition. Here are some thoughts on what’s next for treating liver disease conditions.
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The Risk Factors That Mean You Need a Test for Liver Disease
Tests for liver disease include blood function tests or ultrasounds. Baby boomers have a high risk of liver disease and show other liver damage symptoms.
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What Causes Liver Disease? 5 Myths Dispelled
A Michigan Medicine liver specialist debunks common myths about what causes liver damage. Discover what's true and what's not when it comes to liver disease.
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How to Have a Healthy Liver: Try These Two Big (Yet Simple) Lifestyle Changes
Learn what's good (and bad) for your liver and discover how you can maintain or improve your liver health with two simple lifestyle changes.
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What Does the Liver Do, and How Do I Keep Mine Healthy?
Ever wonder what your liver does? Explore the 500 functions of the liver, including what it does for the digestive system, and find ways to keep your liver healthy.
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NASH May Overtake Hepatitis C as Top Liver Transplant Cause
A Michigan Medicine researcher outlines the relationship between obesity, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis and a rising liver transplant burden.
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Alternatives to Liver Biopsy: When Are Other Tests Appropriate?
Noninvasive liver tests haven’t replaced liver biopsies, but have sharply reduced the need. Two Michigan Medicine experts examine the debate of alternative liver tests.
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Toddler with a Rare Liver Disease Thrives After Lifesaving Procedure
It took a nearly seven-hour surgery (called a Kasai procedure), but one tiny patient avoided the need for a liver transplant in his first year of life.
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Are You at Risk for Fatty Liver Disease?
A condition linked to the death of pop star George Michael affects nearly one-third of Americans. How genetics and lifestyle factors play a role.
 Eric Barth walking his dog after recovering from a drug-induced liver injury from Z-Paks
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Antibiotics and Liver Injury: What’s the Relationship and Risk?
Antibiotics like Azithromycin or Z-Paks can cause drug-induced liver injury. Learn more about antibiotic side effects like drug-induced liver injury.
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Study: Specialty Care Improves Liver Disease Survival
University of Michigan professor finds survival rate for patients with liver disease improved with specialty care. Learn more about this paper on liver disease.
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Troubling Trends in Drug-Induced Liver Damage
Research from the University of Michigan Hepatology Program reminds physicians that drugs their patients commonly use may cause liver injury or failure.
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