Mid South Liver Alliance is working with the AASLD to help get important information out about COVID-19 and the special implications for patients with Chronic Liver Disease. Within a very few months of the global pandemic of COVID-19 , it became clear that the...
Recognizing Risk Factors. Catching the Diagnosis. Management of Liver Cancer. – OBJECTIVES Understand risk factors for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Understand how to diagnose Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Be able to describe non-operative procedures for the treatment...
Almost every visit to a health provider, results in a bilirubin test to make sure that it is in a normal range. Newborns are tested right way for bilirubin levels which are often high at birth and then correct on their own. Bilirubin is a yellow pigment that happens...
Cholangiocarcinoma or bile duct cancer is a rare but aggressive type of liver cancer. Bile ducts are the narrow tubes that carry bile from the gall bladder through the liver and onward to the small intestine. Bile is the digestive fluid that breaks down food and...
Blood travels through the liver as part of normal circulation. If the liver has blockages or scarred areas that restrict the blood’s normal path, the flow of blood will attempt to push its way through using the smaller veins in the liver. This places a lot of pressure...
