Abstract
Alcoholic liver disease is a spectrum of conditions that include alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, and chronic alcoholic liver disease. The diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease remains founded in an accurate patient history and detailed physical examination. Concurrent with the physical examination, objective data from laboratory, imaging, and histologic studies are helpful to confirm a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease. Novel biomarkers, scoring systems, and imaging modalities are improving the ability to diagnose and manage alcoholic liver disease, but for most practicing clinicians, these have not been adopted widely because of their cost, but also because of limitations and uncertainty in their performance characteristics.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Clinics in Liver Disease |
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| State | Accepted/In press - 2016 |
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Keywords
- Alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Chronic alcoholic liver disease
- Cirrhosis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hepatology
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Diagnosis of Alcoholic Liver Disease. Key Foundations and New Developments. / Childers, Ryan E.; Ahn, Joseph.
In: Clinics in Liver Disease, 2016.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Diagnosis of Alcoholic Liver Disease. Key Foundations and New Developments
AU - Childers, Ryan E.
AU - Ahn, Joseph
PY - 2016
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N2 - Alcoholic liver disease is a spectrum of conditions that include alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, and chronic alcoholic liver disease. The diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease remains founded in an accurate patient history and detailed physical examination. Concurrent with the physical examination, objective data from laboratory, imaging, and histologic studies are helpful to confirm a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease. Novel biomarkers, scoring systems, and imaging modalities are improving the ability to diagnose and manage alcoholic liver disease, but for most practicing clinicians, these have not been adopted widely because of their cost, but also because of limitations and uncertainty in their performance characteristics.
AB - Alcoholic liver disease is a spectrum of conditions that include alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, and chronic alcoholic liver disease. The diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease remains founded in an accurate patient history and detailed physical examination. Concurrent with the physical examination, objective data from laboratory, imaging, and histologic studies are helpful to confirm a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease. Novel biomarkers, scoring systems, and imaging modalities are improving the ability to diagnose and manage alcoholic liver disease, but for most practicing clinicians, these have not been adopted widely because of their cost, but also because of limitations and uncertainty in their performance characteristics.
KW - Alcoholic fatty liver disease
KW - Alcoholic hepatitis
KW - Alcoholic liver disease
KW - Chronic alcoholic liver disease
KW - Cirrhosis
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