The Digestive Health Center offers a multidisciplinary approach to transplant hepatology.
Conditions treated
- Acute liver failure
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Alpha-one antitrypsin deficiency
- Ascites
- Autoimmune cholangitis
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Benign liver tumors
- Cirrhosis
- Drug-induced liver injury
- Fatty liver disease
- Gastroesophageal varices
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Hepatorenal syndrome
- Hereditary hemochromatosis
- Malignant liver tumors
- NASH
- Polycystic liver disease
- Portal hypertension
- Portal vein thrombosis
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Secondary sclerosing cholangitis
- Vascular disorders of the liver
- Wilson's disease
Testing options
- Blood testing assessment of liver function and for markers of chronic liver disease
- CT abdomen with multiphasic contrast
- Liver biopsy
- MR abdomen with MRCP, elstography, or multiphasic contrast
- Ultrasound with doppler or elastography
Treatment options
- Banding of esophageal varices
- Interventional radiology treatment of liver tumors
- Medications:
- Anticholelithics
- Anti-pruritics
- Antiviral treatments
- Cathartics
- Colloid infusions
- Immunomodulators
- Infused diuretics
- Non-selective beta blockers
- Oral diuretics
- Steroids
- Surgical liver resection and transplantation
- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
