Alcoholic liver disease

Introduction: Alcoholic liver disease

Prolonged alcohol abuse can cause damage to the liver leading to cirrhosis of the liver (and various other complications). Liver disease specifically caused by alcohol is called "alcoholic liver disease" to distinguish it from other causes of liver disease or liver cirrhosis.

Symptoms of Alcoholic liver disease

• Alcoholic hepatitis
• Liver inflammation
• Hepatitis
  • Fever
  • Jaundice

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Medical Textbooks Online about Alcoholic liver disease

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Alcoholic liver disease?

• Misdiagnosis of Alcoholic liver disease
• Underlying causes of Alcoholic liver disease (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Misdiagnosis and Alcoholic liver disease

Chronic liver disease often undiagnosed: One study reported that 50% of patients with a chronic liver disease remain undiagnosed by their primary physician. The reasons are multifactorial. Possible conditions include chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, hemochromatosis, or other types of liver condition. See introduction to liver disease or misdiagnosis of liver disease....read more »

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Causes of Alcoholic liver disease

• Alcoholism

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• Alcoholic liver disease as a complication caused by other conditions
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Treatments for Alcoholic liver disease

• Zinc - possibly used for treatment of related zinc deficiency

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Prognosis for Alcoholic liver disease

Prognosis for Alcoholic liver disease: If drinking stops, this condition often is reversible. (Source: excerpt from Alcohol What You Don't Know Can Harm You: NIAAA) ... Although cirrhosis is not reversible, if drinking stops, one's chances of survival improve considerably. (Source: excerpt from Alcohol What You Don't Know Can Harm You: NIAAA)

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Reseach about Alcoholic liver disease

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Clinical Trials for Alcoholic liver disease

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Alcoholic liver disease include:

• Pentoxifylline for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis (AAH) - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - pentoxifylline
• Treatment of Alcohol-Related Hepatitis With Arginine - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Arginine
• Adipose Tissue Involvement in Alcohol-Induced Liver Inflammation in Human : Study of Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines and Adipokines. - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)

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Statistics for Alcoholic liver disease

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