What Is Liver Diease?
Liver disease is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States. Hepatitis C and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis are the two most common forms of liver disease, affecting 1.8 and 2-3% of the general population. In addition, a number of other forms of chronic liver diseases such as hepatitis B, genetic hemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, alcoholic liver diseases, and drug induced liver disease affect a large number of patients. Of these, 20% are expected to progress to cirrhosis. Over the last few decades, the impact of liver disease has increasingly been recognized as the diagnosis and management options expanded rapidly. Novel and sophisticated treatment options have become available as the direct consequence of unprecedented breakthroughs from the basic and clinical research. In the dawn of this new millennium, a number of these gains from research have been translated into heath care advances for patients with liver disease. The Center for Liver Diseases at Inova Fair
