Type: Hepatic
Autoimmune hepatitis
Chronic immune-mediated liver inflammation responsive to immunosuppression.
Biliary atresia
Progressive obliteration of bile ducts in infancy, commonest cause of pediatric liver transplant.
Alagille syndrome
Multisystem disorder with bile-duct paucity, cardiac, skeletal, ocular and facial features.
Primary biliary cholangitis
Autoimmune destruction of intrahepatic bile ducts leading to cholestasis and cirrhosis.
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Progressive fibro-obliterative cholangitis with bile-duct strictures, linked to IBD and cholangiocarcinoma risk.
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
Inherited cholestatic disorders presenting in infancy with severe pruritus and progressive liver disease.
Hepatitis B
What is Hepatitis B? Hepatitis B is a viral infection that attacks the liver and can cause both acute (short-term)…
Hepatitis C
What is Hepatitis C? Hepatitis C is a viral infection that primarily affects the liver, caused by the hepatitis C…