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Cirrhosis
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Overviews
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention/Screening
- Nutrition
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
- Clinical Trials
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Organizations
- Statistics
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Cirrhosis of the Liver (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
Also available in: Spanish
Overviews
- Overviews
- Cirrhosis (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Cirrhosis: Many Causes (American Liver Foundation) - Links to PDF
Also available in: Spanish - Liver: A Primer (American Liver Foundation)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Liver Biopsy (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
- Ultrasound: Abdomen (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)
Treatment
- Treatment
- Interventional Treatments for Liver Disease (Society of Interventional Radiology)
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- ALT (Alanine Aminotransferase) Test (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Bilirubin Test (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- Liver Panel (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Alcoholic Hepatitis (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
- What Is Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC)? (American Liver Foundation)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- About Portal Hypertension (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Bleeding Varices (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Digestive Diseases Dictionary
(National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
Organizations
- Organizations
- American Gastroenterological Association
- American Liver Foundation
- National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Statistics
- Statistics
- FASTATS: Chronic Liver Disease/Cirrhosis (National Center for Health Statistics)
- Quick Facts: Alcohol Topics (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)