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  2. Alcoholic liver disease - Wikipedia

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    Liver cirrhosis develops in 6–14% of those who consume more than 60–80 g of alcohol daily for men and more than 20 g daily for women. Even in those who drink more than 120 g daily, only 13.5% will experience a serious alcohol-related liver injury.

  3. Alcoholic hepatitis - Wikipedia

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    10-20% of patients with alcoholic hepatitis progress to alcoholic liver cirrhosis every year. [10] Patients with liver cirrhosis develop liver cancer at a rate of 1.5% per year. [11] In total, 70% of those with alcoholic hepatitis will go on to develop alcoholic liver cirrhosis in their lifetimes. [10] Infection risk is elevated in patients ...

  4. Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease

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    Cirrhosis and liver cancer induced by MASLD or MASH were the second cause of liver transplantation in the US in 2017, with MASLD or MASH expected to overtake alcohol related liver disease as the most common indication for a liver transplantation in the future. [81] People with MASH cirrhosis have an increased risk of liver cancer.

  5. Cirrhosis - Wikipedia

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    The cause of cirrhosis can vary; alcohol and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease are main causes in western and industrialized countries, whereas viral hepatitis is the predominant cause in low and middle-income countries. [154] Cirrhosis is more common in men than in women. [156]

  6. Steatohepatitis - Wikipedia

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    Both may progress to cirrhosis of the liver, but the risk is much greater with MASH as opposed to MASLD. At 15 years, 11% of people with MASH develop cirrhosis as opposed to less than 1% with MASLD. [3] All cause mortality in MASH is 25.5 per 1000 person years with a liver specific mortality of 11.7 per 1000 person years.

  7. List of hepato-biliary diseases - Wikipedia

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    Chronic liver diseases like chronic hepatitis, chronic alcohol abuse or chronic toxic liver disease may cause liver failure and hepatorenal syndrome; fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver; Cirrhosis may also occur in primary biliary cirrhosis. Rarely, cirrhosis is congenital.

  8. Liver function tests - Wikipedia

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    Other causes include: infiltrative liver diseases, granulomatous liver disease, abscess, amyloidosis of the liver and peripheral arterial disease. Mild elevation of ALP can be seen in liver cirrhosis, hepatitis, and congestive cardiac failure. Transient hyperphosphataemia is a benign condition in infants, and can reach normal level in 4 months.

  9. Hepatorenal syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Hepatorenal syndrome is a particular and common type of kidney failure that affects individuals with liver cirrhosis or, less commonly, with fulminant liver failure. [1] The syndrome involves constriction of the blood vessels of the kidneys and dilation of blood vessels in the splanchnic circulation, which supplies the intestines. [ 2 ]