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Results 1 - 8 of 8 for Biliary cirrhosis
  1. Bile Duct Diseases (National Library of Medicine)  
    Your liver makes a digestive juice called bile. Your gallbladder stores it between meals. When you eat, your gallbladder pushes the bile into tubes called ...
  2. Cirrhosis (National Library of Medicine)  
    Cirrhosis is scarring of the liver. Scar tissue forms because of injury or long-term disease. Scar tissue cannot do what healthy liver tissue does - make protein, ...
  3. Autoimmune Diseases (National Library of Medicine)  
    What are autoimmune diseases? Your immune system protects you from disease and infection by attacking germs that get into your body, such as viruses and ...
  4. Liver Diseases (National Library of Medicine)  
    Your liver is the largest organ inside your body. It helps your body digest food, store energy, and remove poisons. There are many kinds of liver diseases: ...
  5. Liver Transplantation (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... common reason for a transplant in adults is cirrhosis. This is scarring of the liver, caused by injury or long-term disease. The most common reason in children is biliary atresia, a disease of the bile ducts. If ...
  6. Jaundice (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... Genetic syndromes Liver diseases, such as hepatitis or cirrhosis Blockage of bile ducts Infections Medicines
  7. Liver Cancer (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... hepatitis B or C Heavy alcohol use Having cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver Having hemochromatosis, an ...
  8. Pancreatitis (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... is heavy alcohol use. Other causes include cystic fibrosis and other inherited disorders, high levels of calcium ...