Toxic Liver Disease
This includes mostly drug-induced hepatotoxicity, which may generate many different patterns over liver disease, including
- cholestasis
- necrosis
- acute hepatitis and chronic hepatitis of different forms,
- cirrhosis
- Effects of Acetaminophen (Tylenol)
- other rare disorders like focal nodular hyperplasia, hepatic granulomas, peliosis hepatis and veno-occlusive disease.
Liver damage is part of hiReye's syndrome.
Read more about this topic: Hepato-biliary Diseases
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