Liver Basics
This is the enlargement of the liver?
What is hepatomegaly?
This type of hepatitis is spread through contaminated water.
What is hepatitis A?
This organ stores and concentrates bile.
What is the gallbladder?
Yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease.
What is jaundice?
This organ produces insulin and digestive enzymes.
What is the pancreas?
This condition is chronic scarring of the liver.
What is cirrhosis?
This form of hepatitis is about 100 times more infectious than HIV/.
What is Hepatitis B?
The presence of the gallstones is called this.
What is cholelithiasis?
Fluid buildup in the abdomen due to liver failure.
What is ascites?
When a disease has no known cause, it is called this.
This is the most reliable test to diagnose chronic liver disease.
What is liver biopsy?
This is the most benign and self limiting for of hepatitis.
What is hepatitis A?
Gallstones most commonly form from this substance.
What is cholesterol?
What is esophageal varices?
This blood protein produced by the liver is checked in labs.
What is albumin?
This system carries blood from digestive organs to the liver.
What is the hepatic portal system?
This condition describes inflammation of the liver.
What is hepatitis?
This surgery removes the gallbladder.
What is cholecystecotomy?
Swelling in the ankles and feet due to liver failure.
What is edema?
This disease gradually destroys bile ducts in the liver.
What is Primary biliary cholangitis?
This condition results from high bilirubin levels.
What is jaundice?
This type of hepatitis is transmitted through blood and body fluids.
What is hepatitis B?
These substances combine to form gallstones.
What are cholesterol, bile salts, and bilirubin?
This increased pressure in the portal vein leads to major complications.
What is the portal hypertension?
This condition involoves inflammation of the pancreas.
What is pancreatitis?